put in place transition rules for some alternative energy, including wind. the production tax credit is currently scheduled to phase out over the next few years, ending in 2020. based upon our conversation, i believe that we are in agreement that you would support the current phase-out as part of any tax reform proposal. question two, i ve been a strong proponent of the irs private debt collection program, as has senator schumer. in 2015, congress updated and made mandatory the irs private debt collection program. this program is designed to chip away at the tax gap by requiring the irs to contract with private debt collectors to collect inactive tax staff hold. these are the tax debts not being worked by the irs. and absent this program would
americans that are paying taxes. senator grassley, you re next. like i told you when we met in our office, i don t have any gotcha questions or i would let you know. let me go along with the first statement i want to make. i don t expect you to answer unless you have some misunderstanding of our position discussed in my office. pro-growth tax reform will be a top priority for you, i agree and look forward to working with you and president-elect trump on that point. as part of any tax reform proposal, it will be important that adequate transition rules are included to provide a smooth transition for businesses that may be unpredictably negatively impacted. as we discussed in our meeting, congress has already effectively
the many hard-working americans that are paying taxes. senator grassley, you re next. like i told you when we met in our office, i don t have any gotcha questions or i would let you know. so let me go along the line of the first statement i want to make. i don t expect you to answer unless you, unless i have some misunderstanding of our position discussed in my office. pro-growth tax reform will be a top priority for you. i agree and look forward to working with you and president-elect trump on that point. as part of any tax reform proposal it will be important that adequate transition rules are included to provide a smooth transition for businesses that may be unpredictably negative negatively impacted. as we discussed in our meeting,
congress has already effectively put in place transition rules for some alternative energy, including wind. the production tax credit is currently scheduled to phase out over the next few years, ending in 2020. based upon our conversation, i believe that we are in agreement that you would support the current phase-out as part of any tax reform proposal. question number two. my been a strong proponent of the irs private debt collection program, as has senator schumer. in 2015, congress updated and made mandatory the irs private debt collection program. this program is designed to chip away at the tax gap by requiring the irs to contract with private debt collectors to collect inactive tax debt owed. these are the tax debts not being worked by the irs. and absent this program would
they left overseas. they said we re going to have capital expenditures you could deduct and they said we are going to do things to help the middle class. we got that done. there are odds and ends in the bill that we are still going to deal with the transition arrangements and get some of those fixed, but the bottom line, it s the people s money. it s not the government money. b, that what we are doing is making investments by putting a bill in place it s going to drive economic growth, put cash in the pockets of the people that invent and create, promote, and employee. and we are very optimistic that this is going to help. by the way, we only did it a week and a half ago. we still have to do all the transition rules. stay tuned, and we will get this done. if you re going to measure it today, you are not being fair. as a matter of fact, a lot of