Registration for NAEA’s 2023 Capitol Hill Fly-In Day is Closed

Join NAEA in Washington, DC on May 23-24, 2023, for our first Capitol Hill fly-in since the pandemic. Over the course of this two-day event, you will hear from policymakers, IRS staff, and DC thought leaders on the latest with Congress and its impact on enrolled agents. In addition to a variety of panels and engaging speakers, NAEA members will take to Capitol Hill and directly engage with congressional offices on issues important to our industry. The Capitol Hill fly-in presents a unique opportunity to interact with fellow EAs while advocating and taking part in our political process.

 

The NAEA Fly-In is a member only event.

Price to Attend: $250

 

Refund Policy

Tickets are non-refundable but are transferable to another member. Attendee can transfer ticket directly from their registration page. Transfers are accepted until May 12th. After that date, no transfers will be accepted. Exceptions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you require assistance, please contact education@naea.org.

The agenda is being finalized. See below for a high-level overview of the event.

 

Monday, May 22nd

 

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Early Registration – beat the lines and grab your packet in advance

 

Tuesday, May 23rd

 

7:00 am – 4:00 pm

 

8:30 am – 9:00 am

 

Registration

 

Coffee/Light Breakfast

8:30 am – 5:00 pm

 

Exhibitors Open

 

9:00 am – 9:45 am

 

Session 1: What’s Happening in Washington

 

 

9:45 am – 10:45am

 

Session 2: View from Former IRS Leaders

  • Charles O. Rossotti (1997-2002)
  • Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. (1989-1992)
  • John Koskinan (2013-2017)

 

 

10:45 am – 11:00 am

 

Break

 

 

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Session 3: Bridget Roberts, Director, Transformation and Strategy Office, IRS

 

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

Session 4: Congress and the IRS: Oversight and Transformation

  • Naomi Jagoda, Bloomberg Tax
  • Benjamin Guggenheim, Politico
  • Richard Rubin, Wall Street Journal

 

 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Session 5:  Tax Policy in the 118th Congress
Senate Finance Committee:
• Don Snyder, Senate Finance Committee for Ranking Member Crapo (R-ID)
• Eric LoPresti, Senate Finance Committee for Chairman Wyden, (D-OR)
• Katie Rudis Hadji, Senate Finance Committee for Sen. Cassidy (R-LA)
• Beth Bell, House Ways and Means Committee for Ranking Member Neal (D-MA) 

 

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Break

 

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm

Session 6: Economic Outlook: 2023 and Beyond

  • Curtis Dubay, Chief Economist
    U.S. Chamber of Commerce

 

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

Session 7: Prepare for Hill Meetings

 

 

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Reception

 

Wednesday, May 24th

 

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Congressional Club Contributor Breakfast – Guest Speaker: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) – Invitation Only

 

Offices of Van Scoyoc Associates

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Capitol Hill Meetings

 

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Closing Reception

 

Offices of Van Scoyoc Associates

Speakers are still being finalized. Stay tuned for more information as event details are finalized.

Richard Rubin

Richard Rubin is the U.S. tax policy reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, where he focuses on the intersection of taxes, legislation, politics and economics. He was the lead author on the Journal’s coverage of the 2017 tax law and now writes frequently about the challenges facing the Internal Revenue Service.

Before joining the Journal in 2015, Richard covered tax policy for Bloomberg News and Congressional Quarterly. Earlier in his career, he wrote about local government and transportation policy for the Charlotte Observer. Richard is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Duke University.

Benjamin Guggenheim

Benjamin currently works at POLITICO reporting on IRS and tax policy on Capitol Hill. Before joining POLITICO, Ben worked as a Congress reporter at Tax Notes, where he wrote about everything from 401(k)s to the Inflation Reduction Act. Earlier, his beat was the U.S. Tax Court, where he broke stories on disputes involving celebrities, including Charlie Sheen’s fight with the IRS over his tax debt.

Before that, Benjamin was a coordinator on the award-winning Covid-19 tracking team at the New York Times. He investigated Covid cases in college sports, followed outbreaks at nursing homes and colleges and tracked shifting vaccine eligibility rules across states, often using public records requests to track down data that wasn’t being disclosed.

Benjamin has a degree in international relations from Brown and grew up in Los Angeles.

Naomi Jagoda

Naomi Jagoda is a senior reporter at Bloomberg Tax, where she covers the IRS and Treasury Department. Prior to joining Bloomberg Tax in January 2022, Jagoda covered tax policy at The Hill for six years, and she has also been a reporter at The Bond Buyer and the Washington Examiner. Jagoda is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charles Rossotti

Mr. Rossotti served from 1997 to 2002 as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency that serves 175 million taxpayers and employs 100,000 people. As a result of his leadership, the public’s rating of the IRS increased greatly and relationships of trust with Congress, tax professionals and business groups were restored, and the agency’s effectiveness turned around. In 1970, Mr. Rossotti co-founded American Management Systems, Inc. and until 1997 served at various times as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. AMS grew through his tenure, becoming a major international business systems consulting and systems integration firm with revenues of more than $1 billion. AMS clients include Fortune 500 companies and federal, state and local government agencies in North America and Europe. In 1979, AMS was one of the first technology services firms to go public.

Mr. Rossotti is on the Boards of Directors of Coalfire, ECi Software, LDiscovery and Novetta (all Carlyle portfolio companies), and Booz Allen Hamilton and Quorum Management Solutions (both former Carlyle portfolio companies). In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of AES Corporation, a publicly owned global electric power company.

In addition to his business activities, Mr. Rossotti serves on the Boards of Capital Partners for Education and the Comptroller General’s Advisory Committee of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). In 2005, he served as a member of President Bush’s advisory panel on reform of the income tax.

Mr. Rossotti is the author of “Many Unhappy Returns” (Harvard Business School Press 2005), a book about his experience turning around the IRS.

Mr. Rossotti earned his A.B. in economics, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and his M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School. In 1970, he received the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal from the Department of Defense. In 2002, he received the Alexander Hamilton Medal from the Department of Treasury. In 2003, he received an Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School.

Fred Goldberg

Mr. Goldberg served as IRS Chief Counsel (1984-1986), IRS Commissioner (1989-1991) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy (1992).  As a tax partner based in the Skadden Arps Washington, DC Office, he has at various times served as the Firm’s global co-chair of the Firm’s tax practice and as a member of the Firm’s global Diversity Committee and the Firm’s pro bono committee. He is currently Of Counsel in the Firm’s DC Office. In addition to his ongoing client work, one of his primary activities for the past several years has been working with Treasury, the IRS and others on efforts to secure and properly deploy the long-term funding that is essential for effective tax administration when it comes to both service and compliance.  He has worked closely with Commissioners Rossotti and Koskinen in these efforts.  Material on these efforts can be found at http://shrinkthetaxgap.com

John Koskinen

John Koskinen was the 48th IRS Commissioner, serving from 2013 to 2017. As Commissioner, he worked to ensure that the agency maintained an appropriate balance between taxpayer service and tax enforcement and administered the tax code with fairness and integrity. 

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Koskinen served as the non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac from 2008 to 2012 and its acting chief executive officer in 2009. Previously, Mr. Koskinen served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation, Deputy Mayor and City Administrator of Washington D.C., Assistant to the President and Chair of the President’s Council on Year 2000 Conversion and Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Koskinen also spent 21 years in the private sector in various leadership positions with the Palmieri Company, including President and Chief Executive Officer, helping to turn around large, troubled organizations. He began his career clerking for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in 1965, practiced law with the firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and served as Assistant to the Deputy Executive Director of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. Mr. Koskinen also served as Legislative Assistant to New York Mayor John Lindsay and Administrative Assistant to Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Mr. Koskinen holds a Law Degree from Yale University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. He also studied International Law for one year in Cambridge, England. He and his wife Patricia have two grown children and live in Washington, DC.

Beth Bell

Beth Bell serves as Tax Counsel on the Committee on Ways & Means for Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), handling corporate, international, and other business tax issues.  Previously, she was Policy Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Tax Counsel in the office of Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD). In that role, she served as the Senator’s principal policy advisor and counsel on taxation, retirement, international trade, small business, and monetary policy. Prior to public service, Beth was an associate at Covington and Burling LLP in the firm’s tax and government affairs practice groups. At Covington, she worked on a broad range of international, corporate, and individual tax advisory and controversy issues, along with legislative work on pension reform, state and federal tax reform, and patent reform. From 2004 to 2006, Beth was a research assistant at the Urban Institute and the Tax Policy Center, where she focused on tax reform and tax policy, budget policy, and asset building for low-income families.  She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Curtis Dubay

Curtis Dubay is the Chief Economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He tracks the condition of the economy, analyzes the impact of public policy on economic growth, and runs the Chamber’s Chief Economists Committee. Previously, he was senior economist at the American Bankers Association and a research fellow in tax and economic policy at The Heritage Foundation. He also worked at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and at the Tax Foundation.  

Curtis has researched and published frequently on a wide range of tax and economic issues. He is regularly quoted by the press and has appeared often in the media, including on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, and C-SPAN. He has testified before Congress several times and been cited in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Politico 

Curtis received his master’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and his bachelor’s degree in economics and leadership studies from the University of Richmond. He resides in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three sons.  

Don Snyder

Don is a Senior Tax and Oversight Counsel at the Senate Finance Committee, with primary responsibility for various individual income tax, passthrough entity, energy tax and incentive, tax procedure and administration, and tax oversight issues. Don joined the Finance Committee in March 2021 from the Federal Policy Group, a premier tax legislative firm. At Federal Policy Group, he served as a Director and Tax Associate, responsible for executing all aspects of the firm’s tax legislative practice during the enactment of a variety of legislation, including the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2018, Taxpayers First Act, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Family First Coronavirus Response Act, CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. He has also worked for Bank of America, a New York City law firm, and as a law clerk and then attorney advisor to the Honorable Mark. V. Holmes of the United States Tax Court. Don holds an LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law; a J.D. with specialization in Business Law – Tax, from UCLA School of Law; and a B.A. in History from Princeton University.

Katie Hadji

Katie Hadji is the Legislative Director and General Counsel for Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a member of the Senate Finance Committee. She has worked for Senator Cassidy and handled his tax portfolio since 2018. Before her work in the Senate, Katie was a Tax Counsel in the House to a member of the House Ways & Means Committee. Katie has an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center and received her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Hotel Information

The Madison Hotel
1177 15th St NW,
Washington, DC 20005

Phone: (202) 862-1600
Website: Check out the website! 

Reservations: NAEA’s Room block is sold out, but our team has secured additional stay options at a discounted NAEA rate for overflow. View nearby hotel recommendations.

 

*Warning About Housing Scams 

NAEA does not use a housing bureau or third-party agency for hotel accommodations or any other travel arrangements. Any claims by any company stating otherwise are not true. Please be sure you are booking directly through the links on this page or directly at The Madison Hotel. 

 

Parking at the Hotel

Valet Daily: $65

Daily parking garages found nearby 

Creating a safe, worry-free experience is our top priority.

NAEA is preparing the 2023 NAEA Fly-In event experience so that all individuals onsite—attendees, speakers, staff, and venue personnel—remain safe and comfortable throughout the event. We are monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and in constant communication with our partners at The Madison Hotel.

 

Duty of Care

We’re facilitating measures that will ensure optimal health and sanitary conditions in all environments where in-person interaction takes place. Read NAEA’s Duty of Care Plan

*We are continually following the COVID-19 pandemic and these requirements will be updated as needed. 

 

Venue and Accommodations 

Our host venue, The Madison Hotel released their Health and Safety Protocols that provides in-depth details on how they facilitate a safe, secure and healthy environment onsite for all participants, both in terms of the event itself and accommodations. 

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Photos from our 2023 Fly-In