IR-2021-39, February 18, 2021
WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service recommended, and the Department of the Treasury has approved, the selection of 24 new members to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel for 2021.
The new TAP members will join returning members to round out the panel of 67 volunteers for 2021. The new members were selected from a pool of approximately 300 interested individuals who applied during an open recruitment period last spring and from alternate members who applied in prior years.
National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins recently shared her appreciation for all TAP volunteers: I am grateful for these citizens volunteering their time and talent to the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. I am very proud of the accomplishments of the TAP last year, and I look forward to the TAP bringing its valuable taxpayer perspective in recommending changes to tax administration to achieve the quality service that taxpayers expect and deserve.
A new report commissioned by medical journal The Lancet revealed a host of widespread policy failures that resulted in thousands of preventable deaths, worsened racial disparities and further widened the inequalities between rich and poor.
Doctors inject sisters Claudia Scott-Mighty, left, Althea Scott-Bonaparte, who are patient care directors, and Christine Scott, an ICU nurse, with their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Bronxville, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).
(CN) A new assessment by medical journal The Lancet lays out in shocking detail the repercussions President Donald Trump’s health policies had on the wellbeing of the American people, with the report attributing thousands of avoidable deaths and increased racial and economic disparities to his administration.
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Since a loss to the Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Dec. 18, the No. 21 West Virginia Mountaineers (13-2, 7-2 Big 12) have won eight games in a row.
The Mountaineers’ star player, redshirt senior Kysre Gondrezick, played in seven of those games and scored 20-plus points in six of them while notching 19 points in the other. She scored a career-high 30 points in the team’s most recent win on Saturday against the TCU Horned Frogs.
During this incredible stretch for the Mountaineers, Gondrezick also scored 24 points in a blowout win over the then-No. 17 Texas Longhorns on Jan. 9, two days after her father former NBA player Grant Gondrezick passed away.
Rising in national polls and profile, WVU hosts Iowa State in key contest Wednesday By
(Mike Carey pregame Zoom conference)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Winners of their last eight games, the WVU women’s basketball team has reached the midway point of their conference schedule and they are just a half game out of first place in the Big 12. The Mountaineers (13-2, 7-2 Big 12) will host Iowa State (11-6, 7-3) Wednesday evening at the Coliseum.
West Virginia has not lost since dropping their first two games in league play against Baylor and Oklahoma State in December. The Mountaineers are ranked 21st in the AP poll, 24th in the coaches poll and 19th in the NCAA NET rankings. ESPN’s Charlie Creme has the Mountaineers as a No. 5 seed in this week’s NCAA Tournament