Steven miller irs biography

As it prepares for the 2013 tax-filing season, which will be complicated by last-minute tax changes arising from the “fiscal cliff” negotiations between Congress and the president, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be led by a temporary commissioner, albeit one with a quarter-century’s experience at the agency.

Every year, IRS’s 100,000 employees collect approximately $2.4 trillion in tax revenue, processing 145 million individual tax returns and issuing $345 billion in tax refunds.

 

Steven T. Miller became acting commissioner of the IRS on November 9, succeeding Doug Shulman, who served as the 47th commissioner starting March 24, 2008, and announced earlier this year that he would not seek appointment to a second five-year term.

The IRS has had 47 different permanent commissioners and 26 different acting commissioners since the agency was created in 1862.

 

Born circa 1956, Miller earned a B.A. at the University of Maryland, a