Karen Russell represents the IRS at educational and taxpayer outreach events working with tax professionals, industry and small business owners. Russell has been employed with the IRS since 1986 – spending 15 years at the Atlanta Service Center working in the Quality Assurance, Underreporter, Examination, Criminal Investigation and Collections Branches. She relocated to South Florida in 2001 to work in the Ft. Myers Taxpayer Assistance Center. In 2007, she accepted a position in Maryland as a Tax Analyst in the Individual Master File E-File Branch and spent 2 years in HQ before accepting a Liaison position in 2009. She regularly speaks at organization meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops, both face-to-face and via webcast, on tax related topics that are relevant to the given tax professional or small business audience. |