Growing Global Collaboration Aids Tax Cheat Effort: DOJ Official

The Department of Justice is focused on finding individuals who hide their money from the IRS by using foreign accounts, and uses growing cooperation with other governments to do it, a DOJ official said Saturday.

• Richard E. Zuckerman, principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Tax Division, highlighted partnerships with Switzerland and the tax treaty protocol with that nation that took effect in 2019.
• Speaking at the American Bar Association conference in Boca Raton, Fla., Zuckerman noted the IRS’s addition of criminal investigation officers in Australia, Dubai, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Those places are “where we think the money and ...