Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance (Day One)

Date: July 17, 2008
Time: 9:30am
Location: Room 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building
Agenda:

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing, “Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance,” examined how financial institutions located in offshore tax havens, including Liechtenstein and Switzerland, may be engaged in banking practices that could facilitate, and in some instances have resulted in, tax evasion and other misconduct by U.S. clients. The hearing  also examined how U.S. domestic and international tax enforcement efforts could be strengthened. The Subcommittee issued a Subcommittee staff report in conjunction with the hearing summarizing its investigative findings.

Exhibits 1 – 114

Witnesses

Panel 1

THE HONORABLE DOUGLAS H.

SHULMAN

Commissioner

Internal Revenue Service

Panel 1

THE HONORABLE KEVIN

O’CONNOR

Associate Attorney General

U. S. Department of Justice

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