The IRS’s principal deputy chief counsel, William Paul, will take on the agency’s acting chief counsel role again, an IRS official said.
Paul will fill in for IRS Chief Counsel Majorie Rollinson, whose last day is this week and who took office in March 2024, said Rachel Levy, associate chief counsel at the Office of the Chief Counsel. Levy’s comments came Thursday at the D.C. Bar Tax Conference.
The IRS chief counsel leads the office that crafts regulations and other guidance, advises other divisions of the IRS during audits, and provides general legal services to the agency. It is one ...