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Results of IRS Abuse Reports Web Site and Email Campaign

Since December 1996, a selection of IRS Abuse Reports have been emailed daily to over 300 members of Congress, all Federal Judges, several media outlets, and various high officials in the federal government.

In addition, tens of thousands of people are reading these IRS Abuse Reports on this web site since it first appeared on the web in August 1995.

Below are some of the effects that the IRS Abuse Reports are having:

Yahoo's News Coverage of IRS Reforms

January 28, 1998
IRS Chief Pledges Reform for Agency
By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tax-collecting IRS will be restructured to make it operate more like a business that serves taxpayers instead of intimidating them, the head of the severely criticized agency told Congress Wednesday.


January 13, 1998
Tax Chief Reports Fresh Problems with IRS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief of the Internal Revenue Service said on Tuesday a new report has uncovered problems with the tax-collecting agency's methods across the country. Charles Rossotti, who took over as commissioner of the IRS in November 1997, said the same improper use of statistics discovered in Oklahoma and Arkansas and disclosed a month ago has been confirmed in a second, broader report as going on across the country.


December 13, 1997
Rubin Disturbed By I.R.S. Violations
By Dave Skidmore The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin promised strong action Friday after an IRS report found the use of enforcement quotas in the Arkansas-Oklahoma office may have led to the mistreatment of taxpayers.


November 5, 1997
U.S. House Approves IRS Reform Bill
"By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Wednesday approved legislation to revamp the Internal Revenue Service, which has come under increasing political fire over its treatment of taxpayers."


October 23, 1997
IRS Reform Bill Passes U.S. House Committee
"By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation aimed at turning the Internal Revenue Service into a more taxpayer-friendly and accountable agency passed the House tax-writing committee with broad bipartisan support Wednesday."


October 10, 1997
Clinton Says IRS Abuses Won't Be Tolerated
"By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton scrambled to keep pace with a wave of taxpayer unrest Friday by proposing to make the Internal Revenue Service more 'customer-friendly'. Republicans dismissed his reform proposals as toothless, guaranteeing a fight in Congress over how best to respond to taxpayer horror stories."


September 29, 1997
IRS Seeking Remedies Aimed at U.S. Taxpayers
"By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Lawmakers have rushed to stamp their names on legislation and the Internal Revenue Service has whipped out a list of remedial steps aimed at turning the agency into a more taxpayer-friendly zone."


September 26, 1997
Congress Mulls Ways To Reform IRS
"By ROB WELLS AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Emboldened by three days of allegations of IRS abuses, members of Congress now turn to a variety of proposals to repair and improve the tax collection agency."


September 25, 1997
IRS Employees Testify on Abusive Practices
"By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Internal Revenue Service employees shielded by screens and voice distorters told a Senate committee Thursday that managers encouraged questionable practices at the expense of taxpayers to improve statistics."


September 24, 1997
Taxpayers Detail Wrongs at Hands of U.S. IRS
"By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Taxpayers told a Senate committee Wednesday how they filed for divorce and bankruptcy, paid thousands of dollars not owed and floundered for years in a bureaucratic maze to correct wrongs by the Internal Revenue Service."


September 24, 1997
IRS Nightmares Get Senate Hearing
"Finance panel hears from parade of witnesses WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Sept. 24) -- Senators looking into alleged IRS abuses produced a long parade of witnesses who described Gestapo-like tactics employed by the tax agency."


September 23, 1997
Senators Accuses IRS of Heavy-Handed Tactics
"WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The Internal Revenue Service found few defenders Tuesday at the start of Senate hearings on abusive practices by an agency that strikes fear and loathing in the wallets and minds of most Americans."


February 7, 1997
Senators say it's time to give the tax man an audit
"From Correspondent Candy Crowley WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Has the IRS run amok? The Senate Finance Committee is trying to find out, and it has asked for $300,000 to investigate what it has called recurring complaints of taxpayer abuse by the agency. It's tough to compile hard evidence that tax..."



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