National Taxpayer Advocate Public Forum Transcripts

"[You] ask people, okay, if you had the choice between trying to find the answer to a government question online, yourself, or just picking up the phone and calling somebody, which would you pre...

Premium Tax Credit: 3 ways to reduce the chance of owing taxes

This past filing season saw some people owing money at tax time that they didn’t expect. Why? Because they didn’t provide an accurate income estimate to the Marketplace when enrolling f...

ALERT: Parents and students should be on the lookout for potential tax scams

With students headed back to school in a few short weeks, parents and students alike should be advised of telephone scammers who target taxpayers during the back-to-school season. Such scammers dem...

Two new videos feature our Taxpayer Advocate Service Affordable Care Act estimators

Two new videos are now available that provide a brief overview of the four available Affordable Care Act (ACA) estimator tools. All of the easy-to-use ACA estimators are designed to help you estima...

Forum on taxpayer service in San Antonio, TX

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Human Resources, held a public forum...

The National Taxpayer Advocate releases Volume 2 of FY2017 Objectives Report to Congress, announces papers available from taxpayer rights conference

Today the National Taxpayer Advocate released Volume 2 of the Fiscal Year 2017 Objectives Report to Congress and announced that presenter papers submitted from the November 2015 inaugural conferenc...

Next Public Forum on taxpayer service needs and preferences to be held in San Antonio, TX on August 30

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Human Resources, will hold a public ...

Forum on taxpayer service in Los Angeles, CA

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson and Rep. Xavier Becerra, a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Social Security, held a publ...

Forum on taxpayer service in Portland OR

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson held a public forum in Portland, Ore., on Thursday, August 18, to discuss what taxpayers want and need from the IRS to comply with their tax obligations. Th...

Take Advantage of TAS Offerings at the Tax Forums

The 2016 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums kicked-off this summer in Chicago, Ill., the week of July 11. New Orleans, La. was the host city for the second tax forum during the week of July 25. The third ta...