Sounds like my late father-in-law. He worked for the IRS right out of college. He managed to make it one year and went to his supervisor and handed in his resignation. The supervisor was puzzled, why resign, you are a good agent...
Finally my FIL told the supervisor, “the way I see the law and Constitution I am playing for the wrong team, I quit...”
As a CPA he fought numerous battles with the IRS for his clients and in some cases went to court, one in particular the IRS KNEW they were going to lose. On this particular tax question they had lost in every federal district it was tried and lost badly. Yet since this taxpayer was unlucky enough to be a court district that had not tried a case they went after him. During the trial my FIL and the clients attorney unearthed memos from the IRS higher ups that they knew they would lose but to continue the case and bankrupt the taxpayer!
When they introduced this into the trial the judge he went through the ceiling. The IRS lost, had to pay all expenses and damages, still didn’t help the client had to declare bankruptcy by that point. My FIL contended there was a special place in hell for IRS agents because of their evil behavior.
The underlying problem is that the penalties go to the institution rather than any of the responsible individuals. Send a few of the worst abusers to jail and things will improve pretty fast....