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IRS GETS 'PROFESSOR IN RESIDENCE'

January 11, 2007

The IRS has renewed its long-disused "professor in residence" program. From the press release:

WASHINGTON � The Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel is reviving its Professor-in-Residence program.

Dormant since the late 1980s, the Professor-in-Residence program provides some of the nation�s top legal academicians the opportunity to contribute to the development of legal tax policy and administration. Reporting directly to IRS Chief Counsel Donald L. Korb, the Professor in Residence provides advice and assistance on a wide array of legal issues within the scope of his or her expertise.

Korb has selected Calvin H. Johnson, the Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School, as the 2007 Professor in Residence for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel.

They shouldn't stop there. It's high time for a "practitioner in residence" program to "contribute to the development of tax policy and administration." Ideally it would be a cranky old veteran of the tax wars with nothing to lose by hitting the IRS with a cluebat. I can think of one or two potential candidates. Not to name any names or anything:

Bruce Croll, CPA