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IRS Beefs Up International Tax Enforcement Effort with Reorganization, Increased Staffing
By Colby Adams
printAn IRS personnel reshuffle designed to combat offshore tax evasion coincides with an influx of over 800 new employees and will facilitate enforcement of a controversial tax law beginning in 2013, say analysts. The changes create a new unit, the Large Business and International Division (LBID), IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, said Wednesday, in a statement. It replaces the agency's Large and Mid-Size Business Division (LMSB) beginning October 1. "The majority of the new headcount of employees promised by the President to the commissioner for the current budget cycle will be assigned to the [LBID]," said Larry R. Langdon, former commissioner...
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