IRS announces plans for new leadership structure

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel announced plans for a new IRS organizational and leadership structure

IRS announces plans for new leadership structure

Article Posted date 13 December 2023

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel today announced plans for a new IRS organizational and leadership structure that will feature a new single deputy commissioner (instead of two) and four new IRS chief positions overseeing taxpayer service, tax compliance, information technology, and operations:

  • The new Deputy Commissioner will be Doug O’Donnell, currently the Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement.
  • The new Chief Taxpayer Service Officer will be Ken Corbin, currently the Wage and Investment Commissioner.
  • The new Chief Taxpayer Compliance Officer will be Heather Maloy, currently the IRS Chief of Staff.
  • The new Chief Information Officer will be Rajiv Uppal, currently serving as the Director of the Office of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
  • The new Chief Operating Officer will be Melanie Krause, currently the Chief Data & Analytics Officer where she also leads Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics and co-lead of the Data and Analytics Strategic Integration Board.

According to today’s IRS release—IR-2023-237 (December 13, 2023)—the changes will streamline operational efficiencies and align with major transformation work underway at the agency through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding. The roots of the change were contained in the IRS strategic operating plan [PDF 3.2 MB] (150 pages) released in April 2023. Read TaxNewsFlash

The changes are anticipated to be put in place in early 2024.

 

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