Have stuck around because they know its a new day. We have some amazing current priorities and staffing, some hiring plans and what is on their desk. And what we can expect in the year in two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business and selfemployed division of paris based in washington d. C. To my left come immediate left is don fort chief criminal Investigation Division ira sent to my far left is nina olson tax tier National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios or on line and if you want to review them they are amazing. They have done tremendous work on behalf of the taxpayers of this country and its going to be really great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs and their divisions and then we are going to go into some q a and certainly opened up to the audience for any questions that you might have. Marybeth, can you kick us off . I want to thank the ada for inviting
Advocacy, irs modernization, tax enforcement, international partnerships, and the future of the irs. This portion is about one hour and 20 minutes. Thank you for coming out tonight. It is an exciting time at the Internal Revenue service. It is an exciting time at the Internal Revenue service. As i mentioned, our commissioner is coming up on his oneyear anniversary. We have a lot of people at 1111 constitution avenue. There are a lot of new people coming on and a lot of people that were there that have been there and were thinking about leaving in the past, are thinking about staying. We have some amazing speakers to discuss hiring, staffing, and current priorities. And what we can expect in the year or two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. Mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployment division. The criminals Investigation Division at the irs and nina olson, National Taxpayer advocate. Bios are online. I will leave you to review them but they are amazi
Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
Advocacy, iron as modernization, tax enforcement, international partnerships, and the future of. He irs this portion is about one hour and 20 minutes. Thank you for coming out tonight. It is an exciting time at the Internal Revenue service. As i mentioned, our commissioner is coming up on his oneyear anniversary. We have a lot of people at 1111 constitution avenue. There are a lot of new people coming on and a lot of people that were there that have been there and were thinking about leaving in the past, are thinking about staying. We have some amazing speakers to discuss hiring, staffing, and current priorities. And what we can expect in the year or two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. Mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployment division. The criminals Investigation Division at the irs and nina olson, National Taxpayer advocate. Bios are online. I will leave you to review them but they are amazing individuals. Have done tremendous work on behalf o
To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployment division. To my left, is the criminal Investigation Division at the irs and nina olson, National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios are online. I will leave you to review them but they are amazing individuals. They have done tremendous work on behalf of of the taxpayers in this country and it will be a great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs in their division. And then we will go into some q a and open it up to the audience for any questions you might have. Mary beth, can you kick us off . Ms. Murphy i want to thank the aba, the new york city bar for inviting us today. I am in my sixth year. When i look around at our Senior Executive team i think nina and , i nina for sure has the longest tenure. What are we doing . We have a really interesting role. We are charged with a mission to help Small Businesses and selfemployed taxpayers as well as 40 taxpayers. H