The Commissioner of Internal Revenue (or IRS Commissioner) is the head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury.
The office of Commissioner was created by Congress by the Revenue Act of 1862. The Commissioner is appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate, for a five-year term.
Read more about Commissioner Of Internal Revenue: Responsibilities, Current and Past Commissioners
Famous quotes containing the words internal and/or revenue:
“I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon’s lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)