Olson, Outgoing Taxpayer Advocate, Forms Advocacy Nonprofit

The outgoing leader of the National Taxpayer Advocate Service has formed a nonprofit to fight outside of the government for taxpayers’ rights, even as she promotes steps the advocate service is taking to broaden its own reach.

The nonprofit organization is called the Center for Taxpayer Rights, said Nina Olson, who will retire from the Taxpayer Advocate Service at the end of July after 18 years as its chief.

A religious freedom issue could be one of the first the nonprofit tackles, Olson said June 21 at a tax controversy forum hosted by New York ...