Challengesscusses facing taxpayers with the complexity of new tax laws. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its tuesday, july 30, 2019. The Senate Continues its workweek today. At 10 00 a. M. Eastern, theyll have votes at 11 30 and lunches afterwards. The house will meet in the brief pro forma session later this morning. Were with you the next three hours on the washington journal. We begin today gauging your level of concern about the security of the 2020 elections. We want to know if you think congress and the white house have done enough to ensure the integrity of the incomes vote, which is now just over 15 months away. Give us a call this morning. Phone lines are open. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. Very good Tuesday Morning to you. Start
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
For one last visit. For viewers who havent seen 0 one of your 20 appearances on the Program Since 2003, remind them what the National Taxpayer advocate does the National Taxpayer advocate is appointed by the secretary of treasury and serves in the Internal Revenue service and had the organization Taxpayer Advocate service to help taxpayers solve theirproblems with the irs and im charged with meeting making administrative recommendations to congress , to mitigate those problems and this is sort of in dispute resolution area and the complexity of the law and things like that. After 18 years, why are you stepping down . I reached a milestone birthday and want to have enough energy for the next phase of my life really 18 years is a long time. Of your final projects has been to sketch out the complexity of the taxpayer system. We will show viewers a map here that your office has helped sketch out, why are you doing that . . We had had a roadmap as a teaching tool for my employees, a very hi
Up next here on cspan 3 a discussion from the Woodrow Wilson center on trade, Border Security and other issues along the u. S. mexico border. This lasts about an hour. All right, were going to get started here. Over the next i would say most important part of the day. Thank you all. Im the chair of the Border Trade Alliance and my day job is Vice President of the San Diego Regional Chamber of commerce. I have to start by saying this is my favorite conference each year. You know, whether youre new to the conversation on the u. S. mexico relationship and the border or youre an expert, the pan lists and the speakers provide thought provoking comments. Al and this panel is no exception. Were really pleased to hear and have them here. Ill run through and introduce them, but to kind of frame the conversation, you know, these panelists they have lived and breathed and in a couple cases run the border the Border Management ports of entry. So well cover a variety of factors that Border Manageme