Twenty-five new members have joined the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel for 2022, the Internal Revenue Service said this week. Also joining the committee are 10 TAP alternatives approved previously. Each year the panel submits recommendations to the IRS, 193 in 2021 alone. The IRS said many of these have been implemented.
Members serve three-year terms and are expected to spend 200 to 300 annually to the group’s activities. The goal is to have demographically and geographically diverse members from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. There is one member representing taxpayers working, living or doing business abroad.
The new members and states they represent are as follows: Sara Zanders, Arkansas; Sarah Holtzclaw, Debra Kurita, Victoria Ramirez, Richard Rodriguez, Angela Madison, California; Jean Miller, Connecticut; Cheryl Crowe, Delaware; Kimberly Fox, Florida; Aisha Earle, Georgia; Kimberly Pederzani, Illinois; Shelley McCracken, Indiana; Rebecca Lammers, International; Willis Keenan, Kentucky; Anthony Jackson Jr., Louisiana; Steven Hoffman, Massachusetts; and Conner McFarland, Maine.
The other members are Suzanne Trnka, Minnesota; Doris Carpenter, Missouri; George Hampton Williams, Mississippi; Jared Lefevre, Montana; Ruth Guyon, Nebraska; David Newingham, Nevada; Shequeila Birdsong and Charles Harvey, New York; Kameelah Guthridge and Robin Mosley, Ohio; Candace Smith, Oklahoma; Meagan Regina, Pennsylvania; Patricia Thompson, Rhode Island; Marla Brown, Tennessee; Richard Bell, Texas; Omar Roman, Texas; Susan LaBudde Wisconsin; and Melissa Harvey, West Virginia.
