IRS Rules Can Hold Up to Challenges, Agency Legal Chief Says

IRS Chief Counsel Marjorie Rollinson said she is confident that agency regulations will hold up to legal challenges in the wake of a US Supreme Court ruling this summer ending a doctrine that empowered federal regulators.

“My focus on guidance is seen through a slightly different lens at this point,” Rollinson said, speaking at a California Lawyers Association tax conference Thursday. “We will continue to write guidance. We will continue to write regulations.”

The Supreme Court in July overturned the Chevron doctrine, which said federal courts should defer to agency interpretation of a vague law. The high court case was ...