{"id":13294,"date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/sen-cornyn-rep-johnson-reintroduce-irs-reform-act\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:43","slug":"sen-cornyn-rep-johnson-reintroduce-irs-reform-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/sen-cornyn-rep-johnson-reintroduce-irs-reform-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cornyn, Rep. Johnson reintroduce IRS Reform Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I&#039;ve seen just about every version of the problem you&#039;re dealing with. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here&#039;s what you should know.<\/p>\n<p>www.yourhoustonnews.com \u2014 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Congressman Sam Johnson (TX-03) reintroduced the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) Reform Act.<\/p>\n<p>The ITIN Reform Act is in response to a highly critical 2012 Tax Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report on the IRS\u2019 handling of ITIN applications. The IRS provides ITINs to individuals ineligible for Social Security numbers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/illegal-immigrants-can-get-back-taxes-under-obama-amnesty\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"2066\">illegal immigrants<\/a>. The ITIN can be used to get refundable tax credits such as the $1,000 refundable child tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/sugar_land\/opinion\/sen-cornyn-rep-johnson-reintroduce-irs-reform-act\/article_9af0f064-65b6-552a-a5e5-5b1c6ecc710c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Cornyn, Rep. Johnson reintroduce IRS Reform Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I&#039;ve seen just about every version of the problem you&#039;re dealing with. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here&#039;s what you should know. www.yourhoustonnews.com \u2014 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Congressman Sam Johnson (TX-03) reintroduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28476,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions\/28476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}