IRS Office Investigating Those Helping Tax Scheme Promoters

The IRS Office of Promoter Investigations is targeting not just tax scheme promoters but also facilitators such as appraisers, those who write opinions on schemes, and employees of promoters, said Lois Deitrich, who heads the office.

“Anyone who’s involved in that kind of a scheme and should know better, but they’re involved in the scheme to help the promotion of it, we’re taking a look at those,” Deitrich said Friday at a tax law conference hosted by the Federal Bar Association.

• Deitrich also said her office, which was created in April, has brought together different parts of the IRS ...