ing to people briefed on the matter. 1 EFTA00215736 The request could open the floodgates to a flow of information about offshore tax evasion. Douglas Shulman, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said in a written statement: "We will be taking additional steps to ferret out offshore tax avoi

against the War in Iraq. And this was stated publicly in the documents of cause as the reason for the audit. Also the head of the IRS, Commissioner Douglas Shulman at the time was a both a Republican and a Bush appointee, whose 6 year term just expired last November. And due to the backlog of Obama appointees