Grassley Releases Witness List for Tax Schemes Hearing


Description:Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, released the following witness list for a hearing on Internet-based or -augmented schemes promoting tax avoidance.
Witness List

A panel consisting of:

Aaron Bazar, former seller of tax scams for the Institute for Global Prosperity who now operates a web site, www.global-prosperity.com, which alerts taxpayers to the scam he helped run, North Potomac, Md.

JJ MacNab, tax scam watchdog, certified financial planner, certified life underwriter, insurance analyst, operates web site, www.deathandtaxes.com, co-chair of the Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar Association, Bethesda, Md.

Robert Sommers, attorney, operates computer web site partially devoted to exposing tax fraud, www.taxprophet.com, San Francisco, Calif.

Jay Adkisson, financial adviser, Adkisson Financial, LLC, operates computer website, www.quatloos.com, whose purpose is exposing fraud, Irving, Calif.

Joseph G. Hodges Jr., attorney, American Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, www.abanet.org/rppt; member, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, www.actec.org, Denver, Colo.

A panel consisting of:

Charles Rossotti, commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C.

Hugh G. Stevenson, associate director for planning and information, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.

Michael Brostek, director, Tax Administration and Justice Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C.