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Reggie Oldak, Senior Counsel and Director of Government Relations

Reggie Oldak is Senior Counsel for Family Economic Security and Director of Government Relations. She focuses particularly on taxes and the federal budget.  Before joining the Center, Ms. Oldak worked for the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and then in private practice on issues affecting the taxation of nonprofit organizations. She is a past president of the Montgomery County (MD) Commission for Women, currently chairs the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, and has worked extensively with local and state government representatives and community leaders in Maryland to advocate for issues central to the concerns of women and families. She has been active in politics and in 2006 won the endorsement of The Washington Post when she ran for (and almost won!) a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Ms. Oldak is graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Smith College.

My Take

Check This Out: The IRS is Trying to Distribute $153.3 Million in Undelivered Tax Refunds

Posted by Reggie Oldak, Senior Counsel and Director of Government Relations | Posted on: December 02, 2011 at 02:48 pm

In an annual reminder to taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service has announced that tax refund checks for more than 99,000 taxpayers can’t be delivered because of mailing address errors. The checks average $1,547 this year.

If you haven’t received the refund you were expecting, check out the “Where’s My Refund?” tool on www.IRS.gov to find out the status of your refund and, in some cases, instructions on how to resolve delivery problems. You can access a telephone version of “Where’s My Refund?” by calling 1-800-829-1954.

To avoid problems with refunds in the future, the IRS recommends that you electronically file your tax return and elect to receive your refund through direct deposit to your bank account. 

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Executive Excess, Corporate Greed at the Expense of Women and Families

Posted by Reggie Oldak, Senior Counsel and Director of Government Relations | Posted on: September 01, 2011 at 02:06 pm

A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies reveals that of last year’s 100 highest-paid corporate CEOs, 25 took home more than their company paid in 2010 federal income taxes. The report found that these corporate chief executives – CEOs of International Paper Company, Prudential, General Electric, Verizon, Boeing, and eBay, among others -- averaged $16.7 million in pay. At the same time, a combination of tax shelters and loopholes allowed those companies to avoid an average of more than $400 million each in federal taxes.   

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The Signing of the Bush Tax Cuts Isn't an Anniversary for Women to Celebrate

Posted by Reggie Oldak, Senior Counsel and Director of Government Relations | Posted on: June 06, 2011 at 03:10 pm

Ten years ago this week, on June 7, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the first of several tax cuts that turned budget surpluses into deficits and exacerbated the trend of widening income inequality. In December 2010, Congress extended the tax cuts through the end of 2012.

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Penny-Wise and Pound Foolish Is No Way to Reduce The Deficit

Posted by Reggie Oldak, Senior Counsel and Director of Government Relations | Posted on: March 07, 2011 at 10:41 am

Sending a clear signal that they're not really interested in addressing the nation's budget deficit, House Republicans voted last month to cut $603 million from the Internal Revenue Service's budget - and to give up collecting $4 billion in taxes owed.

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