Nina E Olson J.D., LL.M. (Taxation)

Nina E. Olson is the National Taxpayer Advocate and serves as an advocate for taxpayers to the IRS and Congress. She leads the Taxpayer Advocate Service, a nationwide organization of approximately 2,000 taxpayer advocates who help U.S. taxpayers resolve problems and work with the IRS to correct systemic and procedural problems. The National Taxpayer Advocate is required by statute to submit two annual reports to Congress. The first report identifies the objectives of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate. The second report includes a discussion of the top 20 problems that taxpayers face in their dealings with the IRS and makes administrative and legislative recommendations to protect taxpayer rights and mitigate taxpayer problems. The National Taxpayer Advocate is also responsible for oversight of theTaxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) and the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) program.

Nina's work as the "voice of the taxpayers" at the IRS has won national acclaim. The non-profit Tax Foundation presented her with its Public Sector Distinguished Service Award in 2007. Accounting Today magazine has named her one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession each year since 2004. In January 2005, Money magazine named her one of the 12 "Class Acts of 2004."

Nina is an attorney licensed in Virginia and North Carolina. She was the founder and Executive Director of The Community Tax Law Project, the first independent § 501(c)(3) low income taxpayer clinic in the United States. The Community Tax Law Project provides free legal services to Virginia low income taxpayers in federal, state, and local tax disputes.