IRS Taxpayer Advocate

Nina E. Olson

Nina E. Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), leads the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), an independent organization inside the IRS that helps taxpayers resolve problems and works for systemic change to mitigate problems experienced by groups of taxpayers.

Ms. Olson was appointed to the position of National Taxpayer Advocate in January 2001.Tax Analysts recently honored Nina Olson as one of ten Outstanding Women in Tax for 2016. The non-profit Tax Foundation selected her to receive its Public Sector Distinguished Service Award in 2007. Money magazine named her one of 12 "Class Acts of 2004," and Accounting Today magazine has named her one of its Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession each year since 2004.

Prior to her appointment as the NTA, Ms. Olson founded and served as Executive Director of The Community Tax Law Project, the first independent § 501(c)(3) low income taxpayer clinic in the United States.

Ms. Olson graduated from Bryn Mawr College, cum laude, with an A.B. in Fine Arts. She received her J.D., cum laude, from North Carolina Central School of Law and her Master of Laws in Taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center.

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