Taxpayer Advocacy Panel program to go on temporary administrative suspension

For more than 20 years, the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), through its team of dedicated volunteer members, has served a vital function in our tax system by advocating for the interests of taxpayers and offering critical feedback to the IRS. The insights and concerns raised by TAP members have historically played an influential role in shaping policies and redefining services that directly affect taxpayers across the nation and abroad. At this time, however, the TAP program will enter a temporary administrative suspension, effective February 13, 2026.

This will include a suspension on the acceptance of new issues and concerns related to improving IRS processes and taxpayer service. Please return to this page for additional updates as they become available.

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April 12, 2022

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel welcomes 25 new members

IR-2022-74, April 1, 2022

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today announced that it recommended, and the Department of the Treasury approved, the selection of 25 new members to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) for 2022.

The new members will join 10 TAP alternates who were approved in a prior year, for a total of 35 new active members. When added to returning members, these new TAP members will round out the panel with 69 volunteers for 2022. New members were selected from a pool of approximately 300 interested individuals who applied during an open recruitment period last spring and from alternate members who applied in previous years.

“We are excited to welcome all of the new members to the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel,” said National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins. ”

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