Kevin Brown is the leader of PwC’s Washington National Tax Services' U.S. Tax
Controversy and Regulatory Services Team. Kevin joined PwC after several notable
professional roles, including Acting Commissioner of the IRS and Chief Operating Officer
of the American Red Cross.
In his nine years at the IRS, Kevin worked in a number of positions. Most significantly, he
served as the Acting Commissioner, where he managed over 100,000 IRS employees
responsible for a budget of $12 billion and the collection of over $2.2 trillion dollars,
approximately 95% of all Federal revenues.
Other roles held by Kevin at the IRS included: Deputy Commissioner for Services and
Enforcement, where he was responsible for the four IRS operating divisions, as well as all
staff and activities related to IRS audits, collections, investigations, and service delivery,
including telephone operations and returns processing; Commissioner of the Small
Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division, where he oversaw excise, estate and gift, and
employment tax for over 45 million small business and self-employed taxpayers, and
managed Bank Secrecy Act examinations on behalf of the IRS; Principal advisor and chief
of staff for former IRS Commissioner, Mark Everson; as well as Division Counsel for the
SB/SE Division and Assistant to former IRS Commissioner, Charles Rossotti. Kevin's
career also includes experience in the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, where he
served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, and as a trial attorney who argued
over 50 cases in United States Courts of Appeals.