Christopher Bergin has been appointed by the Tax Analysts board of directors to serve as executive director, the chief executive officer of the organization, effective December 10, 2001.

Should the folks who are revamping the social security system do so in public or behind closed doors?

It is not their finest hour. Democrats on the United States Senate committee that writes tax legislation had an opportunity to step up and do the right thing when they drafted an economic stimulus package in November.

Congress and the President need to proceed cautiously in developing an economic stimulus package.

The federal surplus is gone; we're in a recession; and the Bush Administration now says not to expect balanced federal accounts before 2005.

Are you working on a client matter that includes tax policy issues you want to discuss with Treasury officials?

It's the end of November and Congress wants to leave town before the Christmas holidays.

Tax Analysts has posted the names of taxpayers whose advance payment (rebate) checks or traditional income tax refunds have been returned to the IRS.

Congress already has passed one tax cut this year and they are almost certain to pass another one in the next few months.

Congress rewrote the government pay rules in 1998 specifically to help IRS recruit technicians and professionals with the "extremely high level" of expertise seen as necessary to straighten out the agency's operations.

The 21 members of the Senate Finance Committee write the tax laws that raise almost all of the money raised by the federal government, and they write the laws that govern about 50% of federal spending.

President Bush and congressional leaders can and should dispel the social security and Medicare financing myths that enshroud the current budget debate.

The members of one of the most powerful committees in the House of Representatives raised an average of almost $1 million apiece in campaign contributions in preparation for the November 2000 election.

The State of Georgia has refused to disclose the terms of special agreements that determine how some Georgia companies are taxed.