By Adam Steele, CPA
On September 8, 2014, Adam Steele joined Brittany Montrois and a “Class of More Than 700,000 Similarly Situated Individuals and Businesses” in filing a class action suit against the federal government seeking to recover allegedly unlawful license fees paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In June 5, 2017, the Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. As a result, tax preparers may be entitled to more than $175,000,000 to be refunded by the IRS. Steele’s first person take on the industry, PTINs, and the case follows…