Agents Of ChangeIs the IRS shedding its image as the agency entrepreneurs love to hate?
ByJoan Szabo•
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Almost two years have passed since the IRS promised to providekinder, gentler service. Now, with several changes in place,entrepreneurs can expect to deal with a friendlier tax agency thisfiling season. But a good deal of restructuring still needs to bedone before the IRS is transformed into a taxpayerserviceagency, say experts who closely follow the agency's dailyoperations.
The IRS is still busy reorganizing and nursing its wounds, saysDon Alexander, an attorney with Washington, DC, law firm Akin,Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP and IRS commissioner during theFord, Nixon and Carter administrations. The agency took a beatingduring Senate Finance Committee hearings in 1997, when varioustaxpayer abuses were uncovered. Since then, the IRS has committeditself to a major self-improvement program.
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