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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbbvl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOV- ERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:01 p.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Christopher Van Hollen (Chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Van Hollen and Hyde-Smith. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR CHRISTOPHER VAN HOLLEN Senator VAN HOLLEN. Good afternoon everybody. This hearing will come to order. And I will be brief because there's lots of mate- rial to cover today. First, I want to welcome Senator Hyde-Smith. This is our first hearing as Chairman and Ranking Member of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Sub- committee. And I'm looking forward to working with you, Senator, as we move forward on the appropriations process this year. I also want to thank our staff on both sides of the aisle. I want to welcome our witnesses. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Former IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti, and IRS Tax Advocate Erin Collins. Thank you all for making the time to be here in person today. And I want to give a special shoutout to Commissioner Rettig for your recent efforts at the helm of IRS to ensure a quick and effi- cient roll-out of the expanded child tax credit benefits so that we're secured in the American Rescue Plan. Funds will start reaching families as soon as July 15. And that support will help cut child poverty nearly in half this year. Today's hearing will focus on two big issues at the IRS. The first is narrowing America's tax gap, identifying the components of that gap, and working to close it. The second is improving taxpayer services. And I believe that these two issues are deeply linked. Our tax system runs on the assumption that Americans volun- tarily comply with the Nation's tax laws. Each year, millions of people pay what they owe, fill out their tax forms, and send them in to the IRS honestly and on time. And they trust that others do the same. (1)

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