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Rossotti named a CIO and two deputy commissioners. IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti has turned to a career service officer, a systems executive and a former tax chief from Kansas for help reforming the IRS and its tax processing systems. Rossotti named Bob Wenzel, a career IRS executive, to the new post of deputy commissioner for operations. Paul J. Cosgrave, the IRS' current systems consultant, will take over as the next chief information officer. And
Rossotti named a CIO and IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti has turned to a career service officer, a systems Rossotti named Bob Wenzel, a career IRS executive, to the new post of deputy The three will take the lead in modernizing the IRS disparate tax processing Cosgrave has been serving as a consultant for the IRS since July. He replaces Arthur A. To join the IRS, Cosgrave left a consulting firm in New York called Strategies4Success A longtime IRS employee, Wenzel became the services chief operations officer in LaFaver comes from the Kansas Revenue Department, where he had been secretary since That effort, called Project 2000, used technology to provide faster service and collect While in Kansas, LaFaver also started Tax Discovery, a project that used computerized The program matched tax filers records in the states Revenue Management The IRS commissioner is familiar with LaFavers efforts in Kansas. Rossottis The Kansas project could eventually be worth $70 million, Walker said. But the program Rossotti resigned from his CEO post at AMS when he became IRS commissioner. He appointed the new managers under the broad powers given him in the IRS Restructuring The IRS reform bill calls for the agency to change its structure from a system of It also transfers the burden of proof to the IRS in tax disputes where the taxpayer is Under the new law, the IRS must also boost electronic filing, receiving 80 percent of
two deputy commissioners.
executive and a former tax chief from Kansas for help reforming the IRS and its tax
processing systems.
commissioner for operations. Paul J. Cosgrave, the IRS current systems consultant,
will take over as the next chief information officer. And John D. LaFaver, who instituted
reforms to Kansas tax system, will be the deputy commissioner for modernization.
systems and instituting other organizational reforms.
Gross, who left the services CIO post in April.
that he began earlier this year. Before that, he was president and chief executive officer
of the Claremont Technology Group Inc., a systems integrator in Beaverton, Ore.
April. He was co-chairman of a task force on reinventing customer service in 1997.
January 1995. He has been credited with turning the states revenue office operations
into a streamlined moneymaker.
more taxes, said Sheila Walker, spokesperson for the Kansas department.
search techniques to ferret out businesses and individuals that werent paying their
taxes.
System against outside information sources to find areas where the data didnt mesh,
Walker said.
former company, American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., was the prime contractor
on Project 2000. AMS signed a $9.5 million contract with the department in 1995.
so far is paying for itself, through a $40 million increase in collected taxes, Walker
said.
and Reform Act.
national, regional and district offices to units serving particular groups of taxpayers
with similar needs.
cooperating with an audit and directs the agency to emphasize customer service.
the nations tax returns electronically by 2007.
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