You a little concerned about . Who in your command keeps you up at night . Watch after words sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Irs commissioner John Koskinen delivered the keynote address at a luncheon hosted by the National Press club in washington, d. C. , just a couple weeks before the annual tax deadline. Commissioner koskinen focused on meeting taxpayers needs and cybersecurity threats. After his remarks, commissioner koskinen took questions from the audience. Good afternoon and welcome to the National Press club where news happens here in the nations capital. Im Washington Bureau chief and senior economic analyst with bankrate. Com. I served as the 104th president of the club. And im standing in today for our 110th president who is away on assign ment because he still has to make a paycheck via his employer versus this volunteer gig and probably submit his tax return as well. Id like to welcome our public radio and cspan audiences and remind you you can follo
Table. Government executive media group. Mark wineo, senior associate editor, proud Buffalo Bills fan. Mark chef, Senior Reporter at investment news. Margaret johnson, Information Technology specialist for the irs, a guest of our speaker. Alli verspill, michael lynn, digit digital strategist. Lisa matthews, the npc headliners cochair who organized today. Skipping over our guest for the moment, kelly herb, Senior Editor at forbes. Lawyer ri russo. Thank you for helping out today. Meg megan o neil. And caroline block. Thank you all, and a round of applause, please. [ applause ] in what has become a National Press Club Tradition we have grateful that the commissioner has accepted our invitation to talk about all thing ace soesso with that five letter word, taxes. They run from soccer to taxes to how computers to react to once in one thousand year events. The budget blueprint called for a 239 million cut to the irs budget following the demise of the Health Care Act in the house. Lawmakers
From its public website. On march 7th the irs reported that it was temporarily suspending us of the ippin application as part of an ongoing security review. The irs does not anticipate having the technology in place for either the get transcript or ippin application to provide multifactor authentication capability before the summer of 2016. The number and sophistication of threats to taxpayer information will likely continue to increase and these threats will be a continued focus of our audit and investigative activity. Chairman hatch, Ranking Member widen, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to share my views. Thank you so much. We appreciate having your views and will now turn to mr. Dadaro and i understand the other two witnesses will be here to answer questions if necessary. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you. Ranking member wyden, members of the committee, were pleased to discuss gaos work related to Computer Security at irs and Identity The
Who can keep taxpayer Information Safe. If you are a top notch tech expert, you already are taking a pay cut to work in Public Service compared to what youd earn at firms in oregon or california. Now, without what is called streamlined Critical Pay Authority, it can take four to six months to bring a new hire on board at the irs. So i want to be clear as we go to questions, taxpayer information is under assault every single day. But the irs does not have the Legal Authority it needs from the congress to build a Cybersecurity Team that can beat back the crooks. Already theres been an exodus of high ranking irs tech staff. The director of cybersecurity operations left a month ago. The terms for the remaining employees working under this Authority Continue to expire, including for one of our witnesses chief technology officer. Come 2017, there are not going to be any left. So today, instead of rehashing the past and just beating up on one agency or one firm, to me, the priority ought to b
We are live on capitol hill this morning where irs commissioner John Koskinen is set to testify on cybersecurity. Hell be appearing before the Senate Finance committee. Live coverage here on cspan 3. We expect it to start in just a few minutes. Again, waiting for the start of testimony from irs commissioner John Koskinen this morning. Hell be talking about cybersecurity and how the irs protects the information of taxpayers. This is taking place before the Senate Finance committee. Just a couple moments away. While we wait for this to get started, elsewhere on capitol hill today, visits continue for Supreme Court Justice Nominee Merrick Garland. Hes meeting with 14 senators today, seven democrats, six republicans and one independent. So far, he has had meetings with 21 senators, 18 democrats, 3 republicans. Oneonone meetings with senators to take place in their offices today. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley was up first and they started at about the 7 45 today. There was