Friday, May 07, 1999
Clinton late in filling IRS board
BY PAUL BARTON
Enquirer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration is more than three months overdue in submitting nominations to the Senate for the IRS Oversight Board, a key part of congressionally required Internal Revenue Service reforms passed last year.
As a result, there is no guarantee that the new customer-friendly attitude of the IRS will be sustained or that other changes will be made, say Rep. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park, and Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.
Messrs. Portman and Kerrey headed a special IRS review commission in 1996-97 that laid the groundwork for the package of IRS measures passed in 1998.
“All taxpayers should be alarmed, ” Mr. Portman said, “because the IRS Oversight Board has real power to ensure that the IRS is held accountable for its actions, that taxpayers are treated fairly and that the reforms are sustained over time.”
The president was supposed to send nominations to the Senate by Jan. 22.
Assistant White House press secretary Barry Toiv said the deadlines were unrealistic because of the amount of research having to be done with each potential nominee.
He declined to offer a new date.
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