Washington, DC - Early last year, the Department of Treasury hired the Urban Institute to conduct a study of Treasury’s debit card pilot program.  The program was intended to encourage taxpayers to receive their tax refunds on pre-paid debit cards but was suspended after only 2,000 of the 808,000 taxpayers contacted elected to participate.  After repeated requests from… Read more

*UPDATE:  NEW TIME* ALL OTHER DETAILS OF THE HEARING REMAIN THE SAME. Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., MD, (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS”) implementation and administration of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) called on Obama Administration officials to detail its involvement in the termination of pensions for certain employees of the now-bankrupt Delphi.  Recent news reports indicate that the Obama Administration played an active role in picking winners and losers among Delphi’s retirees.   Camp requested that… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA), called on Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to produce a detailed accounting of how funds at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Doug Shulman a letter demanding answers on a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) revealing the IRS may be blatantly ignoring fraudulent tax returns and applications for the Individual Taxpayer… Read more

Washington, DC  -  Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanding a full accounting for the agency’s continued inability to stop tax fraud related to identity theft.  A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) finds that the IRS catches only a… Read more

Congressman Charles W. Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold the second in its series of hearings on tax-exempt organizations, this time examining the revised Form 990, reasons for the increasing organizational complexity of public charities, including… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Welcome to this morning’s hearing on public charities.   This hearing is the second in a series of hearings exploring tax-exempt issues and IRS compliance efforts.  The focus of today’s hearing is on 501(c)(3) public charities, the largest category of tax-exempt organizations.   In particular, for public charities we are focused on… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman requesting detailed information on the IRS’s information technology (IT) budget. With a budget request of $2.5 billion for IT in FY 2013, the Members requested a full accounting from… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Republicans today demanded the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide a full accounting for the cost of implementing and administering the Democrats’ health care law.  Two recent reports from independent government agencies raised questions about the IRS’s ability to account for the taxpayer dollars used to implement the Democrats’ health… Read more