[chollida1]

> Big investors will have eyes and ears inside the IRS, so will have known for years about this already.

Sorry, just so I'm clear, you are claiming that major hedge funds have "moles" in the IRS that illegally funnel them the private tax information of major public companies?

What possible source do you have for this?

[ericmay]

At this point people assume everything is a scam, everything is "compromised", and everyone except the "little guy" is in on it. It's really silly. You might as well also claim that the IRS has moles inside of Microsoft and is compromised which is why they're going to get this $27 billion in owed payments and investors had no idea!

Better yet, the IRS and Microsoft are working together on a secret AI tax scheme and this is a cover-up for transferring large amounts of funds to the IRS or to Microsoft for the program to work.

[beagle3]

… and yet, when an academic realized that option dating couldn’t happen by chance, it turned out many investors and CFOs were all in on the option backdating scheme, but the IRS wasn’t.

[IG_Semmelweiss]

I don't think it needs to be "moles"

There are tons of "Expert networks" companies where they tap key personnel for market info. I have received these sort of inquiries many times in the past. Hedge Funds are major users of these.

I can easily see the line of inquiry not breaking the law but getting close enough to extrapolate information on the companies being targeted (IRS personnel, for example), without outright naming them.

This is kind of digital fingerprinting, but for companies. You don't may never get the name of the company, but at some point the questions become so specific that shoe will only fit 1-2 companies.

How many companies have personnel primarily in the US, HQ in Ireland, have revenues >1B, and sell operating systems as a primary source of revenue ?

[chollida1]

Not sure your explanation makes sense to me.

I'm also a part of a few expert netowrks and I probably get to take phone calls a dozen times a year to help people who need information on my area of expertice.

What specific person would someone contact to findout that Microsoft has unannounced tax liabilities that wouldn't' in anyway break insider trading rules?

Who possibly could attest to this type of information and would freely offer it up? No serious expert network member would ever do this as it would be the end of their career and expose them to serious jail time.

Perhpas you could fleshout your explanation some more here.

[JumpCrisscross]

> tons of "Expert networks" companies where they tap key personnel for market info

What are confidential, ongoing tax cases at the IRS is not something expert networks provide.