By Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)

WASHINGTON – During the pandemic, fraudsters and international crime rings stole hundreds of billions of American tax dollars that were supposed to be spent on pandemic relief. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates that instances of fraud in the unemployment insurance program alone have cost as much as $135 billion while outside experts have estimated up to $400 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans will be powerless against an agency that is now going to be tax preparer, filer, and auditor as part of the IRS’s soon-to-be released e-file system, which ...

Even though the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a report showing that taxpayers are uninterested in the IRS ...

As prepared for delivery. "Good morning and welcome to today’s Oversight Subcommittee hearing on investigating pandemic fraud and preventing history from repeating itself. "We have all seen the headlines – 'Biggest fraud in a generation,' 'Easy money,' 'The Great Grift.' These terms were used to describe the historic ...

As prepared for delivery. "Thank you Chairman Schweikert and Ranking Member Pascrell. "Part of our oversight responsibilities here in Congress is to assess when the fraudulent use of tax dollars occurs and account for what has been lost. But the American taxpayer also expects us to put an end to as much of that fraud as we ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement blasting organizations and U.S. universities for their statements, or failure to condemn statements issued by student organizations, of support for Hamas and the barbaric acts of terrorism committed against the Jewish people in Israel. Chairman Smith said, “To say I am ...

Washington, D.C. – There are so many victims of a politicized IRS leak of confidential tax information that President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) claims that it “would be impractical” to contact all of them, yet DOJ only sought a one-count charge against the perpetrator who pled guilty on Thursday to stealing private tax information, ...

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