The Internal Revenue Service should have a senior level Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer, the agency recommended this week. The new position was one of several organizations the IRS proposed in a report to Congress this week in its Taxpayer First Report.

Anthony Pugliese, CEO of the California Society of CPAs, will become president and CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors in March. He replaces Richard Chambers.

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