By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer
See http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Jan08/ ... er,00.html for the full articleSniffen wrote:WASHINGTON — Nancy Killefer, the management consultant chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to make federal agencies work better for the public, has a lot of experience trying to improve the agency taxpayers love to hate, the Internal Revenue Service.
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As he left office, Clinton named Killefer to a five-year term on the IRS Oversight Board, a group of outside experts and internal officials that Congress established after taxpayer mistreatment scandals came to light in the late 1990s.
The board was to regularly assess IRS practices and spending for Congress, but as its chairman in 2004, Killefer went further. On behalf of the board, she presented Congress an alternative IRS budget to the one submitted by President George W. Bush.
She proposed more money to bring an additional 1,000 cases against high-income tax cheats and to boost by 42 percent the audits of corporations that try to dodge taxes. And she said the extra spending would ensure IRS could continue to answer at least eight of every 10 calls from individuals taxpayers seeking help.
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