ProPublica: Free File Alliance was 'aggressively attacking' Professor Ventry

ProPublica, reporting on Internal Revenue Service emails it obtained after suing the agency for access, asserted that the Free File Alliance (the industry group behind the IRS’ online tax return preparation program) was at one point “aggressively attacking” Professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., a longtime Free File critic. Read the story

Professor Ventry is an expert in tax policy and legal ethics. His research interests include tax expenditure analysis, family taxation, professional responsibility and standards of care, tax filing and administration, tax compliance, public finance, and tax and legal history. He is the former chairman of the IRS Advisory Council, and co-author on the casebook, Federal Income Taxation, with Martin McMahon, Jr., Daniel L. Simmons, and Bradley T. Borden.