NAPA Symposium Series on the Transformation of the IRS - Panels Two & Three

Panel Two: How Technology-Enabled Transformation Will Shrink the Tax Gap and Improve Taxpayer Service

October 19, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM

This panel will focus on how the IRS can more effectively deploy advanced, but available, technologies such as machine learning to significantly reduce the tax gap by providing top-notch taxpayer service and more effectively finding taxpayers who have not fully reported the taxes that they legally owe. We will discuss the challenges related to deploying new technologies while simultaneously modernizing the IRS’s very old core accounting systems. This panel, moderated by Dr. Fred Forman, former EVP for American Management Systems and IRS Associate Commissioner for Modernization, will explore these issues.

Panelists:

• Richard Spires, former IRS and DHS Chief Information Officer, former CEO of Learning Tree International
• David Powner, former GAO Director of IT Management Issues now with MITRE as Executive Director, Center for Data-Driven Policy
• Don Fort, Director of Investigations at Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, and the immediate past Chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (CI) Division
• Selvi Stanislaus, Executive Officer of the Franchise Tax Board (FTB)

Panel Three: Leadership, Culture, and Change Management

October 26, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM

If the IRS is to fully realize the investments in its technology and its workforce advocated by the first two panels, it will require a leadership team committed to transforming its culture—not just at the top but all through the ranks of career IRS employees—as well as implementing a comprehensive change management strategy to guide them. Our final panel, moderated by Jim Cook from MITRE, will explore these issues, as well as key lessons learned from previous transformation efforts in the IRS and elsewhere.

Panelists:

• Carolyn Colvin, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
• Fred Goldberg, former Commissioner of the IRS, IRS Chief Counsel, and Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Tax Policy
• John Koskinen, former IRS Commissioner and Deputy Director of OMB
• Sean O’Keefe, former NASA Administrator and Secretary of the Navy

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