my issue now, and actually, i even tried to e-mail miss olson. my issue now is i wasn't able to make my audit day, and i'm begging for an audit. i'm actually saying, please come audit me so i can get this issue behind me, and i've contacted her d.c. office, i sent an e-mail to someone there -- >> mark, nina has a question for you. >> i don't want you to give me your information over the phone, but perhaps you could share the person handling the phones your information so i can get back to you or my staff can get back to you personally. i'm sorry that you've had a difficult time. i'll respond to your answer off line -- your question when you're off line. with respect to how my office works, we don't have the power to do the audits ourselves. what we have to do is get the irs to do what the taxpayer needs. and sometimes, you know, we are pushing up against that very same bureaucracy that you yourself described, and i will, for your particular case, make sure that things are taken care of. the larger question that you had about the size of the irs a

and so munch went to thomas olson, and he said, save my children. so olson bought munch's paintings, including "the scream," which he bought in sweden in 1937, brought i back to norway, where he lived, and then, of course, in 1939, hitler invaded norway and occupied norway, and so what olson did, very cleverly, he collected up his paintings, including "the scream," took them in very innocent-seeming vehicles to his farm north of oslo, and there, would you believe it, they spent world war ii in a hay barn, completely safe. >> that's amazing. why do you -- do you know why munch created four different versions of "the scream"? >> well, his own answer to that, with he would get quite cross when people asked him that. he said, look, raphael's allowed to paint a lot of madonnas, why can't i paint more than one "scream." he said, such an important theme, i can't just work it out on one canvas. and if you look at them all, they're all quite different. >> yes, yes, they are. so this painting is going to auction at sotheby's this week. what is going to be the

white, miss olson, for your appearance here today. george, i thank all of you for being here and i look forward to the testimony with great anticipation. we need to make certain that people are protected and that is our obligation and responsibility to do it. and i think that working together we can do a lot better than what we're doing. this is not a committee here to blame you and you blame us. this is a committee to come up with solutions. thank you so much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, gentlemen. and would echo your final comment there as well that we're about working with you and all to solve problems, not to play gotcha and all the more we appreciate our witnesses being with us today. we'll keep the record open for seven days for additional statements or extraneous materials to be submitted for the record, we're now glad to move to our witnesses and we are honored to have four very dedicated public servants who day in and day out seek to serve the american people with great distinction and honor and who bring great expertise to t

the minneapolis feattrrd olson's picture and the caption "hire me."the 22-year-old paid 3-hundred dollars for the eight-second spot. it was displayed for 24 hours. the plan after sending out h - resumes and not getting any response. (("i was just trying to think of ideas to set myself apart from other people and to get catch the attention of somebody) sooebody."))no job offers just &pyet, but he says he has gotte some leads. 15 months after a 2 alarm fire destroyed the charles villlge pub in towson.... t's time to reopen. reopen. joelld. smith is live there with the owners facebook helped them rebuild. good morning joel d. 3 3 it's not a "real" olympic impressive to watchhthese "cupatheletes" compete! a group of california kids is the juuior olyypicss.n speed stacking... playees stack and un-stack a dozen plastic cups innpre-determined sequences. the junior olympic games take place in texas ovvr the summer. how about this for sport? pmerrcan slackline walker dean potter crosses a canyon in central china. potter grand canyon sunday... balancing precari

one of the issues miss olson, you talked about, is in the current system we use electronic collection, especially for the withholding of taxes and we have a mandatory 94% requirement for irs in using electronic collection. can you expound, the way i understood is your suggestion or recommendation is if we use that same approach to estimated tax payments it would not just help the taxpayer but ultimately generate more collection if we took that approach. >> we were very successful once the irs was given the nudge saying achieve this goal in employment taxes in getting electronic payments which saves the cold front money because you're not processing checks. but it makes it easier for the taxpayer after they get used to it that we should apply that to estimated taxes. i think that in some areas it's hard for taxpayers to save up money to pay estimated taxes quarterly f. they can pay it month lick like other bills and they pay lots of bills through their bank accounts setting up payments. we don't have a good interface. if we could get a nudge from congress that set as goal, the irs has

joy olson, wola america latina no ha sido 1 enfoque para la administracion obama. esto es cierto.en terminos del mundo hemos tenido 2 guerras y al mismo tiempo y preocupaciones en muchos otros lugares." standup: fernando pizarro, washington d.c. evidencia de esto puede ser una encuesta reciente de univision, latinodecisions y la cadena abc, solo 1 2% de los votantes latinos le dan importancia a la politica de estados unidos hacia america latina a la hora de decidir su voto. desde washington, fernando pizarro, univision. falta menos de un aÑo para las elecciones presidenciales de noviembre...y ambos rtidos, republicanos y democratas, imposi haciendo hasta lo elija a unsidente de su partido.. carolina sarassa desde las vegas, nevada hablo con el presidente del comite nacional republicano, acerca de este importante momento para el paisaunque si es ciertoa encabeza los titulares a nivel nacional por el alto ngos hicariosbajo rendi escuelas, y hasta uno de los peores lu asistencia medica... tambien es cierto que es un estado clave para las elecciones... y eso lo saben ambos partidos...

. >> olson lee, director of the mayor's office of housing. our goal is to put into context the affordable housing we have done. the family began our presentation -- before we begin our presentation, i wanted to put that into context. up until the point of the dissolution of the development agency, we were the envy of many communities around the state. not only did we pass a housing bond. we also had redevelopment funding that had committed 50% of local tax increment for affordable housing. in most communities with redevelopment agencies, the committed only 20% to affordable housing. the other thing i would like to put into context is how the redevelopment agency and the mayor's office of housing, with the urging of the board and the public, used that money. we did not just to low-cost housing that met the definition of affordable housing. we took the extra step based on your encouragement to the special needs housing, housing for people disabilities, a variety of things that many of their communities do not do. they are supported even further

olson on a number of times. but i experienced a terrible reaction and had to go to my representative, and i was a constituent and she assisted me. i was assigned person in jacksonville, mr. jones, who really helped me and deserves k accolades for working with me and a taxpayer. i had called the tax office, i had gone down in person, and to get no assistance, so i finally thought i would call the national taxpayers' advocacy program. i didn't get any help, but thank goodness for my representative who was able to. >> i'm sorry about that. the phone line that we have on the screen is actually the number for my employees. the number that is listed of other materials are actually not my employees, they're employees of the irs that just answer the phones and are supposed to help solve problems before they come to us, if they can. so i'm glad that you ultimately got help. a lot of our cases do come from congressional offices. i can only say that we deal with about 300,000 cases a year, and we do have about a 75% relief

my name is chris olson. in the hospital and i work in ethiopia and uganda. >> so dr. chris olson was somebody i met at a conference once. he's the type of technologyist that can put together incubator out of car parts. >> am i taking one or two? >> hopefully two. >> great. great. >> what we're doing today is talking about how we solve problems to deliver health care to the world's most vulnerable people. >> maybe at this stage, just getting a little bit more conservative and not doing 30 at a time, but maybe 15. >> so jose is an integral part of what we're all trying to do together. >> because then we have to cool a much smaller space. >> there's not one single entity that is taking an idea and then going to prototype and really working with end users and making sure it's the right device. >> chris is great, because in the same way that i'm no longer afford to ask dumb questions about medicine, he's no longer afraid to ask silly questions about engineering and design. so in that back and forth, we often come

united and benny olson haven't lost in six straight games? second half, mvp, most valuable player.peaking of players, dwayne row sash rio with the -- rosario with the header. d.c. united wins 3-2, the first back to back wins since 2009 in a seven-game unbeaten streak. so good stuff for d.c. united there. finally, they're racing at richmond saturday night under the lights. older brother kurt busch not faring too well. look at him spinning out. we'll talk about his sibling in a second. 82 laps to go, carl edwards jump the restart. he gets a black flag which means you've got to get off the track. we want to talk to you. the younger busch, he hold off dale, jr., to win his fourth. it's been a great sports week in d.c. >> welcome to d.c. rg3. >>> last look at the weather. generally becoming partly sunny in the afternoon. temperatures near 70s. pretty nice day on sunday. >> thank you for joining us. have a great night and we'll see you back here tomorrow.

. >> miss olson? >> sir, i don't have those numbers. i'd be glad to look into them and get back to you. >> would you agree if those numbers are accurate, that would suggest that the-debacho income tax in this country is becoming more regressive not more progressive if the top ten of 1% is paying half of what it used to pay and the middle quartile is paying more? >> the reason it's difficult to answer that is i've just been looking at historical data and it's not clear to me that the highest income taxpayers are paying less than what they might have done historically. so that's why i'm saying i'd need to look at what you're asking me and look at the charts that i've got and be able to answer for the record. >> boy, i have to tell you, miss olson, numbers available to me are quite clear. they're not ambiguous. the decline significantly in terms of the total% and of income tax collected by the irs. mr. chairman, i thank you and i thank you, mr. towns, for your indulgence. >> i thank the gentleman. before coming back, mr. towns just would t

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host: nina olson is the national taxpayer advocate that helps americans. taxes are due tomorrow at midnight. not today. mr. date was sunday. yesterday -- yesterday was sunday. today is the 150th anniversary of emancipation day in the district of columbia. guest: two extra days does not lead to procrastination. we have one spike about the end of january, beginning of february, and they rushed out to get their refunds. and we have the spike toward the end of the season and that is people who owe taxes, and they tend to wait until the last minute. what we now have is a lot of people who are having to file extensions because more people than ever are invested in mutual funds, stock accounts, and often they do not get the information from the brokerage houses until very close to the filing deadline, said they file an extension and have until october 15. the third spike is october 15. host: 60% of individual taxpayers higher someone to do taxpayers for them. 19 out of 19 tax preparation outlets made mistakes on tax returns. 17 of them made significant mistakes.

i would like to thank olson lee and tiffany from the agencies. true leadership requires a clear vision and a commitment to making that vision a reality. this project and the funding it received is owed to you guys. i would like to thank the staff , elizabeth, sally, heidi, migke, joyce. you are the ones that worked side-by-side to sweat the details and worked as long and hard as we did. if there is any recognition we receive as project managers, you receive that equally. i like to thank the department of public health and city-wide and the funding people. you were a big part of the success and will continue to be so for many years to come. finally, i would like to thank the members of the many community and neighborhood residents that have supported the project. i would like to thank cac members and neighbors and residents. chris jackson is on the selection committee that chose our team. thank you. john owns a condo right next to the site. thanks to you as well. on behalf of committee housing partnership and our future residents, they give to the

ted olson is supportive of it. is it inevitable that this country at some point will accept gay marriage legally? >> well, if only we were all fortunetellers. i think the path we're on right now suggest that is the case. me being a christian, believing in god's ability to change hearts and minds, i don't know what the future holds. i think it involves a grassroots movement come not just political but a grassroots movement of taking us back to a basic understanding of right and wrong and morals and understand what we believe that if that were to happen, in large measure i don't know that this is inevitable. i think we can stop it but if we continue on the path we are currently on, i think you are right. it is inevitable. >> has the practice of family law grown over the last decade? >> yes. statistically, the docket increased. what i definitely see where the large expansion is related to issues dealing with same-sex relationships. we're all aware of the litigation takes place, trying to strike down a california law o

in fresno at olson's deal. it is 50% complete. you see the shop fabricating some of the beams and girders. i am pleased to announce that we obtained 350 tons of steel for the bones of the terminal which is produced in arkansas and indiana. steel started arriving on site at the end of this may. and it should be complete by the end of the summer. port staff proposes to amend the joint venture could design -- a joint venture design contract to increase the contract amount by $776,000. we have a 40% lbe participation. most of the increase is due to design work to increase north point changes which i just discussed previously. all this was not in our scope. most of the scope will move into phase two of the terminal which -- of the project which is non- terminal aspect -- non-cruise terminal aspects. the requirements affecting the northeast wharf plaza design, the north tip design, access from the embarcadero to the north tip and repair 29. fencing and lighting in addition to restrooms. all these items keep adding to our scope without p

. >> reporter: olson says don't be surprised some drugs are smuggled one bellyful at a time. >> in some it's how they spread the risk, right? if you bring it up in tons and truckloads and one get caught, then it's cost. if one individual person is caught with, you know, a pound, a kilo, that individual will pay a high price, but the traffickers don't lose that much. so they like to spread it around. >> reporter: using middlemen here to get the drugs to where it's ultimately inhaled. >> while consumption of cocaine in the united states has been declining over the last decade, the market for cocaine in the united states is still the largest in the world. it's still highly profitable and so i suspect this kind of thing is going to continue to happen. >> reporter: in some cases one chocolate bar at a time. at dulles international airport bob barnard, fox 5 news. >> mr. olson says the profitable and highly competitive drug trade has made central america the murder capital of the world. >>> as we near the one year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden u.s. intelligence officials say his

[applause] from hr san francisco mta -- and from our mayor's office on housing, olson lee. in addition, i want to thank all of the volunteers who are here. i also want to think the mayor's office on a neighborhood services, disability. bud from media services. and sfgtv for helping to broadcast tonight's town hall. with that, it is my pleasure to introduce our moderator. we have one major neighborhood that is shared by district 3 and district two, and the head of one of the largest ethnic associations in both districts is the president of russian hill neighbors, tina. thank you, tina. [applause] >> i do not know whether to stand in front of you or in front of you. either way, i have my back. i wanted to point out first that we have translators. so i would like everyone to speak clearly. and when you finish a sentence, pause before you start the next one. it really will help them out. i want to go over the two-minute rule we are going to have at the very end. and we are going to have two minutes for every speaker. i know you all will not get a chance, but i think you put you

nina olson and others have said we believe the irs is a good investment. we are in essence the people who bring in $4 trillion and it is 90% of every dollar that comes in. as we pull people and we have pulled many people to work on identity theft as we had to and as we should. that does impact other programs. >> if i might herman cahn earlier points from the inspector general the ira's have a project that is looking into the impact of service on compliance, my office is working closely with the office of research and the investment division and we are doing a lot of surveys to taxpayers and will be interesting what we find out and this this is a constantly d area. you can get resolution but where we send notices to taxpayers early in the system, very effective. what that leaves us with are those taxpayers who are not going to willingly come forward. it is how you do the nudging. the main point i want to talk about is the comment about our document match. we have been giving significant tools with merchant card reporting. but the provision that would have g

host: nina olson, thank you so much for joining us. is the taxpayer advocate for the united states. coming up, we will be looking at the weekly "your money" segment. >> the studentcam competition asked students to create a video on what part of the constitution is most important to them and why. hael is a junior in high school. hi, michael. >> this protect the right to copyright. >> why did you choose this as your topic? >> i am interested in music and films. >> what is the copyright protection? >> it allows an artist to keep their work from being stolen by someone else and somebody else claiming it as their own work. >> as these technologies have come out, they have had an impact on copyright. what is the biggest negative consequence? >> file sharing, allowing someone to take an individual file and give it to other individuals. it is basically like stealing, in the digital world. >> how does this affect artists? >> it takes money away from artists. the individuals lose because of the individuals are sharing the info all over the inter

i will turn it back to olson for the conclusion. >> in conclusion, we agree with a budget analyst's report on reporting, tracking, the exclusionary program, as well as funding. i would like to leave the supervisors with one last conclusion. we have had a very robust affordable housing program. i think the slides have shown the importance of the redevelopment tax increment towards that robust program. clearly we need to look at ways of replacing that. this is in part why the mayor talked about a housing trust fund as a way of trying to offset not only the loss of federal money and cuts but the uncertainty as it surrounds the redevelopment funding overall. the oversight board is going to be submitting the payment schedo the department of finance this week. we will get a review of that by the department of finance, and that may improve or actually may make the situation even more difficult, since the state has really gone after redevelopment funds and redevelopment programs and has not let the affordable housing component of redevelopment benefit at all in any way during this dissolution, so

olson? >> sir i don't have those numbers but i would be glad to look into them and get back to. >> would you agree those numbers are accurate that would suggest that the de facto income tax in this country is becoming more aggressive, not more progressive? if the top one tenth of one person is paying half of what it used to pay? the middle quintile is paying more. >> cert, the reason why it's difficult to answer that question is that i have just been looking at historical data and it's not clear to me that the highest income tax payers are paying less than name might have done historically so that is why am saying i need to look at what you're asking me and look at the charge that i've got to be able to answer for the record. >> i have to say to ms. olson, the numbers available to me are quite clear. they are not ambiguous. they have declined significantly in terms of the total percentage of income tax collected by the irs. mr. chairman nye thank you and they thank you mr. towns. >> i tango

olson, the independent counsel case, and mckinnen was very annoyed. he came down to my office because i had been critical of his behavior as the chief judge of the special division that appointed the independent counsel. he came down to my office, and he started to complain. he looked over my shoulder and saw that picture. he turned absolutely ash white and said i would have recused myself if figure would have come up and turned around and walked right now. he realized how inappropriate that was. in any event, nixon approved the initiative. we submitted it to the congress. we came within two votes of getting it passed in the senate, and it was -- bob packard led the fight for us. and it was -- it looked like it was a good chance of passage until 1972 when colson got the teamsters to support nixon. one of the quid pro quos was to drop support for that legislation. i got a call from, i guess, it was george schultz to tell me that -- exactly what happened. i was disappointed, but the president had every right to make that policy call. i remember having t

i also feel that has been employed by munger and olson as an employer lawyer raises certain questions about him -- treatment of employees. that is a big concern for me. at this point, i will stop here. i could be wrong. but i do not think his reappointment is in the benefit of the public interest. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. there is a term limit of three terms on the mta board of directors. >> i am a taxi driver 10 years and i am the -- am on the taxi advisory council. last year he did respond to some of the complaints, the demands from the cab drivers regarding the 5% credit-card fees and some of the other issues. he did call for town hall meetings and acknowledged the 5% fees are too high. i do not think we should pay any credit card fees but there is a lot of -- anyway. there is that. i will say that about heinicke. but i will also say that there is the problem the mta thinks the taxi industry is a cash cow and i will disagree with the idea of the public does not complain about the taxi drivers. the public does complain. they complain about rude drivers, not be able to p

my name is olson lee, director of the mayor's office of housing. i will walk through the affordable housing section of the development agreement. the affordable housing section is broken out into basically two sections. one, the replacement housing obligation, since the development will be removing from the inventory units and also the question of the new affordable housing obligations. based upon the city's codes, cpmc will be providing funds per the city's ordinances, as well as through negotiations with the department of planning and the mayor's office of housing, to provide funds for the replacement of both 20 residential hotel units that will be demolished, as well as five grand-controlled apartments that will also be demolished. these will be paid no later than the effective date of the development agreement. the calculation for the residential hotel units was done by the department of real- estate. as i said earlier, the calculation for the rent- controlled units were done by the department of planning and the mayor's office of housing. in a

from the mayor's office of housing, we have olson lee. we have our newly appointed city administrator. we also have the mayor's education policy adviser, who is also a member of the board of education. i do not think i missed anyone. i am. sorry. that is later. it's my honor to introduce rachel, the executive director of the vernal heights neighborhood center. she is an amazing community leader. we are grateful she's here. to introduce our budget director. we'll tell you more about the process tonight. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] thank you, supervisor campos. good evening, everyone. [speaking spanish] it's a pleasure to be here, not only because my organization serves more than just district 9, which is where we are, but we also serve district 8, 9, 10, 11. it is important that we see collaborative processes like this happen. my role tonight is to let you know what you can expect for this evening. the agenda of roughly will be -- you will hear the budget overview from our city's budget director. then you will hear some statements fro

i would like to thank olson lee and tiffany from the agencies. true leadership requires a clear vision and a commitment to making that vision a reality. this project and the funding it received is owed to you guys. i would like to thank the staff , elizabeth, sally, heidi, migke, joyce. you are the ones that worked side-by-side to sweat the details and worked as long and hard as we did. if there is any recognition we receive as project managers, you receive that equally. i like to thank the department of public health and city-wide and the funding people. you were a big part of the success and will continue to be so for many years to come. finally, i would like to thank the members of the