President Trump made headlines with his nomination of Rep. Billy Long of Missouri as the next IRS commissioner, signaling a new era for an agency mired in controversy. Trump has made no secret of his plans to reform the IRS, promising to rein in “bureaucratic overstepping” and put an end to its wasteful and abusive practices. If Billy Long is to fulfill that promise, a clear starting point should be addressing the IRS’s aggressive and misguided litigation strategy against conservation easements – one of the clearest examples of the agency’s overreach. Conservation easements, a legal tax deduction codified by Congress,...