Hoyer Applauds MD Joining Direct File Program
(Congressman Steny H. Hoyer Facebook photo)
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer was among the state leaders who gathered earlier this month to announce that Maryland was joining the IRS Direct File program for the 2025 tax filing season.
“This program is a voluntary program for states to participate in. And I am not surprised that Maryland has been one of the first states to step up and say, ‘We want this program for our people.’ And Brooke Lierman, our comptroller, thank you very much for your leadership in running, probably the most exciting – how exciting can the comptroller’s office be? Brooke Lierman has made it an exciting office in which to work and which to be benefited by in terms of making sure, as she said, our state is going to be the first and best in terms of making it easy to file,” Rep. Hoyer (D-MD) said.
Rep. Hoyer also thanked Derek Davis, the state treasurer.
“People don’t understand how important the Board of Public Works is in our state. Now, there’s one person that understands very well how important the Public Works is, and that’s our governor, because the comptroller and treasurer make up our Board of Public Works. They do the state’s business essentially, and one of the state’s businesses is making sure that we have the revenues and making it easy to pay. Nobody likes taxes. They may be surer things, but we don’t really get excited about paying our taxes. But we know that it is price of our democracy,” Rep. Hoyer said.
Click here for a full video of the press conference.
Others in attendance at the news conference September 4 hosted by Lierman were Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, US Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Rep. John Sarbanes, and US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.
Click here to read a transcript of Rep. Hoyer’s remarks.
Congressman Hoyer is chair of the Regional Leadership Council.
For more information about Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, visit his Leader member page.
