IRS defends its policing abilities. (Internal Revenue Service answers charges of alleged influence buying in clothing trade)

Daily News Record, July, 1989 by Barrett, Joyce

IRS DEFENDS ITS POLICING ABILITIES WASHINGTON (FNS) -- As three days of congressional hearings into alleged corruption in the Internal Revenue Service wound up Thursday, focus shifted from the long-time feud between the jeans-making families of the Marcianos and Nakashes to a defense of the agency.

Former IRS commissioner Lawrence B. Gibbs insisted that the agency was capable of policing itself, and accused the House panel investigating it of attempting to grab powers it shouldn't have.

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs, headed by Doug Barnard, Jr., (D., Ga.), was holding the hearings to "develop support" for two legislative proposals, Gibbs charged. First, it wants to give Congress more direct access to citizens' tax...

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