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The
Senate voted 64-33 to install Rettig, who will replace Acting
Commissioner David Kautter. Kautter has been temporarily filling
the post since last November when then-Commissioner John
Koskinen retired after nearly four years in the job.
Trump announced in February that he was nominating Rettig to the
post.
Rettig's review by the Senate Finance Committee last summer was
marked by Democrats voting against him to protest a U.S.
Treasury Department decision ending a rule requiring some
tax-exempt groups, including non-profits such as the National
Rifle Association, to identify their financial donors to the IRS
in confidential filings.
He also drew criticism for failing to disclose business ties to
a Trump-branded hotel in Hawaii. Nonetheless, Rettig vowed to
senators that he would lead the IRS in an independent manner.
Rettig told the Senate that his top priorities as IRS
commissioner would be upgrading the agency's technology and
customer service. Once sworn in he will oversee the nearly
77,000 IRS employees.
(Reporting By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Susan Cornwell;
editing by Diane Craft)
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