Article: Treasury: IRS Division Should Focus More on High-Risk Deals.

Article: IRS: Clifford Gannett Likely to Be Named Director of TEB ...
The Bond Buyer;  June 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Gannett has been acting director of the TEB office since W. Mark Scott left the IRS in ... process, sources said this week. The TEB office, with a staff of about 70, handles ... guidance to the enforcement division. The TEB office plans to undertake two major initiatives ...

Article: TEB Office To Focus On Derivatives: 2006 Goals ...
The Bond Buyer;  December 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and housing sectors, agency officials said yesterday. The TEB office also plans to assess nearly $200 million in penalties against ... goals, according to Gannett. For fiscal year 2006, the TEB office hopes to close 480 audits and 60 VCAP cases, he said. The ...

Article: IRS to Increase Staff By 12 at TEB Office: ...
The Bond Buyer;  September 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Lawyers' annual Bond Attorneys' Workshop here, Henn said the TEB office plans to hire at least 12 new field agents next spring. That ... cases being processed, the field operations manager said the TEB office is auditing 50 or 60 bond issues in which derivatives are ...

Article: IRS' Charles Anderson to Retire From TEB Office ...
The Bond Buyer;  November 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... months because it is "time to go," he said in an interview yesterday. Anderson has headed up field operations for the TEB office since its inception in early 2000. As part of the IRS' tax-exempt and government entities division, TEB has grown from ...

Article: IRS: Gannett: TEB Office Is Keeping Its Focus on ...
The Bond Buyer;  March 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ...AUSTIN -- The Internal Revenue Service has settled several Section 6700 examinations of bond counsel firms, underwriters, and financial advisers in the past six months as it maintains its focus on abusive arbitrage schemes, according to tax-exempt bond office director Clifford Gannett. "We have

Article: Two More Deals Under Audit by TEB Office.
The Bond Buyer;  April 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- Some $63.3 million of refunding notes sold by Pennsylvania's Scranton School District in 2001 and $40 million of Series 2005 lease-to-own bonds sold by Georgia's Richmond County Development Authority are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service, according to municipal disclosures

Article: IRS: IRS Looks to Boost Ranks of TEB ...
The Bond Buyer;  February 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Peter Schroeder The Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt bond office is launching a nationwide hunt to substantially boost the number of its field revenue agents and tax law specialists to deal with increasing compliance and regulatory matters, especially those brought on by the economic