Internal Revenue Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Internal Revenue Service Index / Organizations Transcripts Joe Solmonese ...people who were, I guess, with the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] or the FE... ...who were, I guess, with the IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] or the FEC [Federal Electio... Jay Carney ...Here I'm thinking about Benghazi, the IRS , and the AP phone records were al... ...for it and speak to it. I remember the IRS thing being that. Of course, nobody ha... Neera Tanden ...Basically, you get a check from the IRS to pay for your healthcare. And we sai... Neil Eggleston ...ongoing into things like Benghazi, IRS [Internal Revenue Service], th... ...into things like Benghazi, IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ], the HealthCare.gov rollout. I wa... ...So actually the healthcare website and IRS were over by the time I got there, th... Dan Pfeiffer ...along with the Cincinnati IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] office scrutinizing Tea Party group... ...reelect. I remember, both around this IRS scandal and Benghazi, and a couple o... Alan Bersin ...then was very thorough, from the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] . And sh... ...then was very thorough, from the IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] . And she came up. Then the whol... Don Verrilli ...that you had to make a payment to the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] in a certai... ...you had to make a payment to the IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] in a certain amount; it was very muc... ...April fifteenth, and you paid it to the IRS , and it was on your form 1040... ...when, as I said, you pay it to the IRS on your form 1040 on April fifteenth... Vivek Kundra ...it simpler. Why couldn't we have the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] working wit... ...simpler. Why couldn't we have the IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] working with the Department o... Wally Adeyemo ...over a hundred thousand employees. The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] is part o... ...a hundred thousand employees. The IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] is part of the Treasury Department... Neal Wolin ...of the government, whether it's the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] or th... ...the government, whether it's the IRS [ Internal Revenue Service ] or the Bureau of the Public Debt o... ...ways, or even within bureaus. The IRS is obviously an enormous entity, an... ...like service-center quality at the IRS , a whole set of things. No question ... ...to ask you a couple questions about the IRS , but you mentioned the penny and th... ...Thanks for that. You mentioned the IRS before, and the accountability an... ...doing, was important in reforming the IRS .” In general, what reforms were neede... ...what reforms were needed at the IRS when the Obama administration began? ... ...administration began? I think the IRS has had—for as long as I've been awar... ...that relate to not just how the IRS does its own business, but how i... ...of the Treasury, I got a call from the IRS saying that in that job I automaticall... ...That's the standard that I think the IRS has been seeking for a long time, an... ...a major piece of the focus. Then the IRS has a really complicated life in ... ...with enough lead time to allow the IRS to figure all that out in ... ...through the tax code. So that kept the IRS —and Treasury, working with th... ...the IRS—and Treasury, working with the IRS —very busy in making sure that th... ...the efficiency and capacity of the IRS operations is connected to, or has a... ...obviously a lot of programs that the IRS administers. The Earned Income Ta... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa