May 11, 2025
Chairman Mike Crapo
Ranking Member Ron Wyden
U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
219 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman Crapo and Ranking Member Wyden,
On behalf of National Taxpayers Union (NTU), the nation’s oldest taxpayer advocacy organization, we want to express our support for S. 3931, “The Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act.” This comprehensive and bipartisan legislative package makes remarkable progress on numerous tax administration issues. We look forward to supporting your efforts to advance this legislation through the process this year.
The TAS Act represents a major, needed step toward addressing challenges that taxpayers face when dealing with the IRS. The broad-based reform package would do more to strengthen taxpayer rights and improve taxpayer service than any legislation since the landmark IRS Restructuring and Reform Act (RRA) of 1998. In fact, several provisions included in the TAS Act serve to reinforce or clarify crucial taxpayer protections originally established by the RRA.
This legislation tackles some of taxpayers’ most critical issues, including lackluster customer service and inaccessible dispute resolution. Moreover, this Act differs from other recent IRS reform efforts in its strong emphasis on accountability and oversight, some of NTU’s key priorities for IRS reform. Overall, the package contains 23 sections with provisions that have been supported by NTU or recommended by NTU Foundation in recent years.
While the job of improving tax administration will never truly be complete, as currently written, the TAS Act makes excellent progress in reinforcing the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and providing badly-needed future direction for the IRS. Thank you for introducing this important bill. If you have any questions regarding technical aspects of the legislation, or are in need of any support to help move it along, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Sincerely,
David Timmons
Senior Policy Manager
National Taxpayers Union