IRS Selects New Members for Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

24 new members join the 2021 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel

 Feb. 18, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service recommended, and the Department of the Treasury has approved, the selection of 24 new members to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel for 2021.

The new TAP members will join returning members to round out the panel of 67 volunteers for 2021. The 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 prior years.

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins recently shared her appreciation for all TAP volunteers: “I am grateful for these citizens volunteering their time and talent to the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. I am very proud of the accomplishments of the TAP last year, and I look forward to the TAP bringing its valuable taxpayer perspective in recommending changes to tax administration to achieve the quality service that taxpayers expect and deserve.”

The TAP is a federal advisory committee charged with listening to taxpayers, identifying issues, and making suggestions to improve IRS service and customer satisfaction. Oversight and program support for the TAP are provided by the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent organization within the IRS that helps resolve taxpayer account problems and makes administrative and legislative recommendations to mitigate systemic problems.

Members of the TAP work on a variety of issues that impact taxpayers in the key areas where the IRS and the public interact the most. Members also serve as a conduit for bringing grassroots concerns raised by the taxpaying public to the attention of the IRS.

TAP members are U.S. citizens who volunteer to serve a three-year appointment and are expected to devote 200 to 300 hours per year to panel activities. To the extent possible, TAP members are demographically and geographically diverse, providing balanced representation from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In addition, there is one TAP member from abroad who represents the interests of taxpayers working, living, or doing business abroad or in a U.S. territory.

The new TAP members by location:

Name	City	State
Tor Daley	Anchorage	AK
April Smith	Birmingham	AL
Kristin White	Gilbert	AZ
Matthew Kinley	Long Beach	CA
Tracey Maria Randall York	Corona	CA
John Yoon	Carlsbad	CA
Rene Tiongquico	Washington DC	DC
Joanne Thurston	Marietta	GA
Christine Scott	Kapaa	HI
Daniel Mistick	Hailey	ID
Jamila Akil	Hazel Crest	IL
Pamela Memmer	Princeton	IN
Jon Ramirez	Wichita	KS
Daniel Leatham	Shrewsbury	MA
Brandon Smith	Bowie	MD
James Usseglio	Hollis	NH
Eugene Lillie	West Deptford	NJ
Richard Metzler	Las Vegas	NV
Cynthia Mills	Glenside	PA
Rita Green	Memphis	TN
Philip George	Saint George	UT
Lucinda Weigel	Vienna	VA
Donna Patterson	Bothell	WA
Charles Simineo	Cheyenne	WY

Taxpayers can contact the TAP representative for their geographic area by calling 888-912-1227 (a toll-free call) or online at www.improveirs.org. Those interested in serving on the 2022-2024 panel may apply during TAP's next open recruitment period beginning in March 2021.

Taxpayers can also send written correspondence to the TAP at the following address: