The Internal Revenue Service is in desperate need of reform. With former Rep. Billy Long confirmed as its new leader, there’s a glimmer of hope that real change might finally be coming.
In his Senate Finance Committee hearing, Long pledged to run an IRS that “prioritizes customer service, identifies critical technology infrastructure needs, and ensures greater transparency and audit practices.” That may just sound like basic competence.
However, for an agency long plagued by overreach, inefficiency, and secrecy, it’s a seismic shift in the right direction.
The first, and most urgent, place Long should look to deliver on that promise is the IRS’s Pass-Through Entity Compliance Unit and the deeply flawed Revenue Ruling 2024-14.
This misguided ruling transforms routine and legal transactions into targets for audits,
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