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8/24/2016

The National Taxpayer Advocate releases Volume 2 of FY2017 Objectives Report to ...

Today the National Taxpayer Advocate released Volume 2 of the Fiscal Year 2017 Objectives Report to...

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7/7/2016

National Taxpayer Advocate Releases FY 2017 Objectives Report to Congress

Today the National Taxpayer Advocate released her FY 2017 Objectives Report to Congress, identifyin...

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6/22/2016

National Taxpayer Advocate Public Forums

The IRS receives more than 100 million telephone calls and 5 million visits in its walk-in sites eac...

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4/26/2016

Tax Analysts selects Nina Olson as one of ten Outstanding Women in Tax for 2016

Tax Analysts has honored National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson as one of ten outstanding women in ta...

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3/4/2016

National Taxpayer Advocate Forum on Future State Highlights Challenges IRS Faces...

Leslie Book, professor of law at Villanova University, was a panelists at the first Public Forum.

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3/3/2016

NTA Discusses Customer Service at the IRS

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson appeared on C-SPAN earlier this week to talk about customer...

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2/29/2016

Discussion of the Future State of the IRS at the National Taxpayer Advocate Publ...

On Tuesday, February 23, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson convened the first in a series of...

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1/12/2016

Taxpayer Advocate Warns of ‘Pay to Play’ I.R.S. System (The New York Times)

The New York Times covered the release of the 2015 Annual Report to Congress, saying: