John Andrew Koskinen is an American businessman and public official. He served as the non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac from September 2008 to December 2011,retiring from the board in February 2012. On December 20,2013,Koskinen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. On December 23,2013,Koskinen was sworn in as the 48th IRS Commissioner after being nominated by President Barack Obama. His term ended on November 12,2017,with David Kautter becoming his interim replacement,followed by Charles P. Rettig as his permanent replacement.
Mark Whitty Everson is an American politician who is currently the Vice Chairman of alliantgroup and served as the 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 until 2007. Prior to his appointment as Commissioner of the IRS,Everson held a number of federal government positions in the administrations of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan,as well as at the state level within the administration of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. is an American tax lawyer who has held high-ranking positions in the United States government,including the position of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Tax Analysts is a nonprofit publisher offering the Tax Notes portfolio of products,including weekly magazines featuring commentary,daily online journals featuring news and analysis,and research tools,all focused on tax policy and administration. Tax Analysts also promotes transparency in tax policymaking and holds regular conferences on key tax issues.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government,which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code,the main body of the federal statutory tax law. It is an agency of the Department of the Treasury and led by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States. The duties of the IRS include providing tax assistance to taxpayers;pursuing and resolving instances of erroneous or fraudulent tax filings;and overseeing various benefits programs,including the Affordable Care Act.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is an office in the United States Federal government. It was established in January 1999 in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (RRA 98) to provide independent oversight of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) activities. As mandated by RRA 98,TIGTA assumed most of the responsibilities of the IRS' former Inspection Service.
In 2013,the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS),under the Obama administration,revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations,including a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder. Conservatives claimed that they were specifically targeted by the IRS,but an exhaustive report released by the Treasury Department's Inspector General in 2017 found that from 2004 to 2013,the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny.
Daniel I. Werfel is an American government official who has served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue since March 2023. He was formerly a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 2014 to 2023,acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 2013,and Controller of the Office of Management and Budget from 2011 to 2013.
Steven Terner Mnuchin is an American investment banker and film producer who served as the 77th United States secretary of the treasury as part of the Cabinet of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. Serving for a full presidential term,Mnuchin was one of the few high-profile members of Trump's cabinet whom the president did not dismiss.
Donald Trump assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Sigal Pearl Mandelker is an American lawyer and former government official who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence from 2017 to 2019. In October 2019,she stepped down from the position to pursue opportunities in the private sector. Following her position with the US Treasury Department,Sigal Mandelker joined Silicon Valley investment firm Ribbit Capital as a General Partner.
David Longly Bernhardt is an American lawyer who served as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Donald Trump. He previously was a shareholder at the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck,where he was an oil and energy industry lobbyist and natural resources attorney. He began working for the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) in 2001,and served as the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009 and deputy secretary from 2017 to 2019.
Justin George Muzinich is an American businessman and former Donald Trump administration official who served as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury,from December 2018 to January 2021. Muzinich previously served as the Counselor to the Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury. Prior to that,he served as Policy Director for the Presidential Campaign of Jeb Bush.
Charles Paul Rettig is an American attorney who served as the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue,the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). On September 12,2018,the United States Senate confirmed Rettig's nomination to be Commissioner for the term expiring November 12,2022. Rettig was sworn in on October 1,2018.
Donald Trump,President of the United States from January 2017 to January 2021,controversially refused to release his tax returns after being elected president,although he promised to do so during his campaign. In 2021,the Manhattan District Attorney (DA) obtained several years of Trump's tax information,and in late 2022,the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee obtained and released six years of his returns.
Donald Cyril Lubick was an American attorney and tax policy expert. He served every Democratic President—from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—and was the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Department of the Treasury under both President Carter and President Clinton.
Lily Lawrence Batchelder is the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Taxation at New York University and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for tax policy since September 2021. She was the former chief tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee under the Obama administration and appointed to head Joe Biden’s IRS transition team.
David Steele Bohigian is an American businessman,investor,venture capitalist,and government official. He served as the acting president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,the former development finance institution of the United States government,from March to December 2019. Bohigian had previously served as the corporation's executive vice president. He was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote in August 2017 under the Donald Trump administration. Bohigian also served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance under President George W. Bush.
