Washington, DC (RI) — Iowa US Senator Chuck Grassley met Monday with President Trump’s nominee for commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, who he says has “very aggressive plans” for overhauling the agency.
Grassley, a Republican who serves on the Senate’s Budget and Finance committees, says it will be difficult for former Missouri US Representative Billy Long to accomplish all he’s hoping to do at the IRS.
If he is placed in charge of the agency and its 90 thousand workers, Grassley says Long would have an uphill battle trying to change the public’s long-held perceptions of the IRS, which collected some four-point-seven trillion dollars in gross taxes during Fiscal Year 2023.
Grassley says he told Long, if he becomes commissioner, how important it is that he respond to inquiries from Congress as they relate to government oversight.
Grassley says he also told Long about legislation he got passed in 2005 that focused on blowing the whistle on corporations that evade paying taxes. He says it’s brought the US Treasury more than six billion dollars, but Grassley says the IRS isn’t making adequate use of that law and could be netting much more money from corporate tax evaders.
Photo: Chuck Grassley (KIWA Staff Photo)
