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:
“When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)