Webinar: Crystal Ball: What the Election Means for the Tax Community by ALFi

The work of the nation's tax community is shaped by what happens in Congress. With the pivotal mid-term elections, change will be coming to Capitol Hill and key committees like House Ways and Means, the Senate Finance Committee, and appropriations committees that oversee the budget of the IRS.

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Presenters

Thad Inge

Legislative Counsel for the National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA), Vice President of Van Scuyoc Associates

Thad Inge is a vice president at Van Scoyoc Associates where he helps a range of clients, including trade associations, businesses, and nonprofits, navigate legislative and regulatory issues. His areas of expertise include tax, tax administration, small business, benefits, and economic development. Prior to joining VSA, Thad led government relations at Paychex, Inc., a leading provider in payroll, human capital management, and benefits services. Thad spent a number of years in government, including heading congressional affairs for the Small Business Administration and working on the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship. Thad graduated from Georgetown University and received his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law.

Marybeth Naissif

Jones Walker Government Relations Director and former staffer on a key House Appropriations Subcommittee

Marybeth Nassif is director of government relations at Jones Walker LLP. She leverages her extensive Capitol Hill experience to help clients navigate complex federal funding and policy challenges across multiple industries and government agencies.

Marybeth brings more than 20 years of appropriations and legislative experience to her work with clients facing rapidly evolving federal funding and policy landscapes. For over a decade, Marybeth has served as a professional staffer for the US House Committee on Appropriations, during which time she oversaw $24 billion in annual appropriations covering the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Personnel Management, Small Business Administration, US Postal Service, and more than a dozen independent government agencies, as well as the federal Judiciary.

This wide-ranging experience across all three branches of government — including her work with more than 30 federal agencies — has given her an unparalleled, comprehensive understanding of the strategies and tactics necessary to help clients achieve desired outcomes. Drawing on her proven ability to forge strategic partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders, Marybeth strengthens public-private collaboration by working with agencies, congressional offices, nonprofits, and trade associations to guide effective funding and policy outcomes.

Bernie Becker

Tax Reporter

Bernie Becker is a tax reporter for POLITICO Pro, where he is primarily responsible for writing the Morning Tax tipsheet.

He previously covered taxes for The Hill, and was an editorial assistant for The New York Times in Washington.

A native of Martinsville, Va., Becker has degrees from the College of William and Mary and the University of Maryland. He now lives in Northwest D.C. with his wife and young daughter. His hobbies include running, reading history books, eating spicy food and watching his daughter chase his cat.

Cady Stanton

Senior Capitol Hill reporter

Cady Stanton is a senior reporter for Tax Notes Today Federal, covering Capitol Hill since 2023. Her beat focuses on U.S. federal tax legislation, the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, IRS appropriations, and other tax developments in Congress. Her writing has previously appeared in USA Today, The Winsted Phoenix, The Washington Monthly, and The Hill. She was a National Press Foundation Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow in 2025, is a member of Tax Notes' Investigations team, and has a B.A. from Georgetown University.

Terry Lemons

Director of Public Relations

From running communications and outreach for a major government agency to covering Congress and the White House as a reporter, Lemons has decades of experience inside and outside government.

During more than 26 years at the Internal Revenue Service, he played a pivotal role overseeing the tax agency’s communications and outreach efforts to taxpayers and tax professionals. His behind-the-scenes duties included advising six different IRS Commissioners, creating the IRS “Dirty Dozen” tax scams list in 2002, establishing the innovative IRS social media program as well as working closely with the tax professional and legal communities on tax compliance and taxpayer service issues.

About

Program Field of Study: Taxes | Federal Tax Related Matters
Program Level: Basic
Who Should Attend: CPAs, EAs, attorneys, business owners, tax preparers
Credits: 1 CPE | 1 CE
Advanced Preparation: None
Prerequisite: None
IRS Program Number: JWRXB-T-00044-26-O

This session gives an early look at what the Nov. 3 election results will mean for the membership of the key tax committees and the potential affect on tax legislation as well as the IRS budget. The results of this election will fundamentally affect the direction of tax legislation for the next two years until the 2028 election.

This unique panel will bring together voices familiar with the inner workings of Congress and the tax community, both from the perspective of working inside and outside of government. It will give the tax community an early look at what the election results mean for professionals working in the tax arena, ranging from return preparers to tax attorneys.

In addition, this session will explore what may happen in a lame-duck session this fall as the current Congress wraps up work before year's end. There is the possibility of Congress giving final consideration to the Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act, a sweeping set of provisions that have wide support in the tax community. And the panel will also explore if other tax proposals have a chance to make it into law during the final weeks of 2026.

Agenda

Review the initial results of the critical mid-term elections.
Learn what this means for the membership of key tax-writing committees, including House Ways and Means, the Senate Finance Committee, and appropriations committees.
Understand the potential impact the election results have on the new Congress and tax issues in 2027.
Look at what a lame-duck session of Congress this fall could mean for the Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act and other tax provisions.