Lawyer Charges IRS Retaliated Against Him for Complaint Over Agent’s Practices

Tax lawyer Robert Kenny says he’s paying a steep price for taking on the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of clients: a retaliatory strike that has put his livelihood and his law license at risk. In a federal suit, Kenny alleges that when he complained to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that an IRS agent was telling taxpayers to forgo representation, the IRS lodged a complaint against him. Kenny says he’s gone public about the dispute to protect himself from what he calls a “Star Chamber proceeding.” Continue…