IRS Seeks Candidates for Advisory Committee

WASHINGTON --The Internal Revenue Service is seeking applications for vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT).

IRS officials said on Thursday that they are accepting applications for the following: federal, state and local governments; Indian tribal governments; and employment tax experience within one or more areas of exempt organizations, employee plans, Indian tribal governments, tax-exempt bonds, or federal, state and local governments.

The committee provides input on the policy and procedures of Tax Exempt and Government Entities division of the agency.

Those interested can apply by completing an ACT member application form available on the IRS website. Applicants cannot be federally registered lobbyists.

Applications will be accepted through Sept. 26, and new members will begin their terms in June 2017. Members are selected by the IRS commissioner and appointed by the Department of the Treasury. They serve three-year terms.

The ACT is comprised of unpaid members who meet roughly five times per year and provide the IRS with recommendations on the agencies' current and proposed policies, programs and procedures. The committee provides an annual report to the IRS each June.

Notice of the ACT application submission calls also was published in the Federal Register on Thursday.

The IRS announced in January it was reducing ACT to 15 members from 21 members. In the same announcement, IRS officials said the ACT's focus going forward would be on general tax administration issues. Previously, the ACT was broken into five subcommittees that focused on employee plans; exempt organizations; Indian tribal governments; tax-exempt bonds; and federal, state and local governments.

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