rosemary marcus, director research analysis and statistics for the irs. and a guest of the speaker. enterprise editor for the economy team. wife of our speaker and guest of our speaker. [laughter] host: chair of the speakers committee, washington bureau chief in buffalo news, and former president of the national press club. give-and-go of our speaker for a moment. -- skipping over our speaker for a moment. host freelance writer and the committee meeting member who arranged it is program. eric smith, an irs spokesman and guest of the speaker. mark camera, washington bureau chief for bank rate.com and former president of the national press club. kevin, editorial director of kiplinger washington editors. a reporter with investment news, and vice chair of the nbc publications committee. [applause] mr. hughes: welcome to tax season. americans have 16 days to get their federal returns filed, but for our speaker, mr. koskinen, every day is tax day. [laughter] mr. hughes: john koskinen oversees the collection mr. hughes of $3 trillion every year. he has been on the job for about 15 months.

on that panel, we will hear from rosemary marcus and nina olson both from the irs, eric toter of theax policy center, and david williams of intuit. all of their bios are in the packets you received. with that, i will asked you to join me in welcoming the commissioner to the podium. thank you. [applause] commissioner koskinen: i have to be careful not to do something with the computer this year. i'm delighted to be here. over a course of years, i have a number of good friends, both at the irving institute and the brookings institute. it's fun to be here. and have a chance to talk to you. it's particularly good, because rarely do i get a group that actually commemorates tax they every year. where else could you find that is kept in washington? -- except in washington? and as a public service announcement, i would remind everybody to file their taxes by april 15, but you party taking -- but ted's has already taken care of that for me. we still have a lot of leading minds on taxes and budgets here so it should be superfluous to make that reminder, because nobody here would file their tax

on that panel, we will hear from rosemary marcus and nina olson both from the irs, eric toter of the tax policy center, and david williams of intuit. all of their bios you should have received the packet when you came in this afternoon. with that, i will ask you to please join me in welcoming the commissioner to the podium. thank you. [applause] commissioner koskinen: i have to be careful not to do something with the computer this year. i'm delighted to be here. over a course of years, i have a number of good friends, both at the urban institute -- the irving institute and the brookings institute. it's fun to be here. it's particularly good, because really do i get a group that actually commemorates tax they every year. -- cap day every year. where else could you find that is kept in washington? -- except in washington? and as a public service announcement, i would remind everybody to file their taxes by april 15, but you party taking care of that for me. we still have a lot of [indiscernible] it should be superfluous to make that reminder, because nobody here would file their taxes

on that panel we'll hear from rosemary marcus and nina olson, both of the irs, eric toter of the tax policy center, and david williams of intuit. all of their bios are in the paekts you should have received when you came in this afternoon. so with that i'll ask you to please join me in welcoming the commissioner to the podium. thank you. [ applause ] >> i have to be careful not to do something with the computer that's here. i'm delighted to be here. i've got over the course of years a number of good friends, both at the urban institute and at brookings. so it's fun to be here. and have a chance to talk with you. it's particularly good because rarely do i get a group that actually commemorates tax day every year. where else could you find that except probably in washington. it's normally the point where i would deliver my standard public service announcement. by reminding everyone to file their taxes by april 15th. but ted's already taken care of that for me. but we still have a lot of leading minds on taxes and budget here. so it should be superfluous to make that reminder. because n

rosemary marcus director for research analysis and statistics for the irs and a guest of the speaker., enterprise editor for the economy team at bloomberg news. pat koskinen wife of our speaker and guest of our speaker. jerry srmiski chair of the speaker's v bureau chief for the buffalo news and former president of the national press club. skipping over our speaker for a moment, robert cardin, freelance writer, and the npc speaker's committee member who arranged today's program. thank you, bob. eric smith, an irs spokesman, and guest of the speaker. mark hamrich, washington bureau chief for bankrate.com, and former president of the national press club. kevin kevin mckormally. mark chef a reporter with investment news and vice chair of the npc, publications committee. [ applause ] well, welcome to tax season. americans have 16 days to get their federal returns filed. but for our speaker, every day is tax day. john koskinen is commissioner of the internal revenue service, where he oversees the collection of more than $3 trillion each year. he has been on the job for about 15 months. how