Charles Grassley, Chairman

Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service "Taxpayer Beware: Schemes, Scams and Cons"

April, 5, 2001 at 10:00 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Witness List

Members' Statement:
Charles Grassley, IA

Panel one Consisting of:
Aaron Bazar, former seller of tax scams for Institute for Global Prosperity, now operates computer website, www.global-prosperity.com, which alerts taxpayers to the scam he helped run, North Potomac, Maryland

JJ MacNab, tax scam watchdog, Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Life Underwriter, Insurance Analyst, operates website www.deathandtaxes.com, Bethesda, Maryland

Robert Sommers, attorney, operates computer website partially devoted to exposing tax fraud, www.taxprophet.com, San Francisco, California

Jay Adkisson, Adkisson Financial, LLC, operates computer website, www.quatloos.com, whose purpose is exposing fraud, Irvine, California

Joseph G. Hodges, Jr., Attorney-at-Law, member American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, www.actec.org; Denver, Colorado

Panel two 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.