Shulman Looks Back on His Accomplishments

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Doug Shulman will be completing his term as IRS Commissioner on November 11, 2012. He spoke to the AICPA in Washington D.C. today. Shulman said that he likes to focus on priorities and not get distracted by crises that tend to crop up. His principal achievements:

  1. Shutting down international tax evasion through voluntary disclosure programs
  2. Softening the “adversarial relationship” between the IRS and corporate taxpayers
  3. Transforming the IRS’ account processing from a weekly cycle to a daily cycle to achieve more real-time processing and analytics
  4. ensuring basic competency for paid tax return preparers by getting them registered and keeping them educated
  5. leveraging data analytics to, for example, vet out tax return preparers who make a habit of preparing inaccurate returns or avoid paying out fraudulent returns
  6. improving the customer service experience when taxpayers phone the IRS seeking tax relief and account-related questions
  7. performing all the other tasks that the IRS is called upon to do (such as the enforcement function of the Affordable Care Act)

 [P]roviding quality customer service is a key priority of mine…and every bit as important as enforcement.

~ Doug Shulman, Commissioner of the IRS

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