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Increase the number of presidential appointments at the IRS

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 22, p. 699. Written by William L. Walton, Stephen Moore, David R. Burton.

Increase the number of presidential appointments at the IRS

The document says “is necessaryWho acts: President, CongressHow: legislationp. 699 in the PDF
What the document says

“there is a need to increase the number of Presidential appointments subject to Senate confirmation, and not subject to Senate confirmation, at the IRS”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 699

The chapter names the Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support, the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Commissioner of the Wage and Investment division among the posts it would change, and asks for an oversight board of private sector IT experts with authority to conduct contemporaneous oversight.

What the document actually says

“there is a need to increase the number of Presidential appointments subject to Senate confirmation, and not subject to Senate confirmation, at the IRS”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 699
That sentence, in plain words

The tax office needs more posts filled by the president.

What this is about

Most tax office bosses are career staff. The book wants more of them picked by the president. It says that would make the agency answer for its work.

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