资深税务欺诈调查员布莱恩·J·维萨利（Brian J. Visalli）在一份诉讼中表示，该机构已将他的个人及税务信息发送给联邦检察官。
Brian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors.
美国国内收入局（IRS）的一名调查员于本月对该机构提起诉讼，指控官员们非法泄露其机密人事档案给联邦检察官，以报复他多年来就该局未能打击避税行为所进行的吹哨举报。
An Internal Revenue Service investigator sued the agency this month, claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistle-blowing on the agency’s failure to tackle tax dodging.
维萨利是拥有24年经验的国内收入局资深员工，专门负责调查复杂的离岸避税安排。他公开批评该机构，撰写文章指出其不愿积极打击跨国公司为规避税收而使用的策略。他参与了两份由财政部税务管理监察长办公室发布的报告：一份涉及国内收入局内部的利益冲突，另一份则涉及该局拒绝调查设计和销售激进税务策略的顾问。
Brian J. Visalli, a 24-year I.R.S. veteran, specializes in investigating complex offshore tax shelters. He has publicly criticized the agency, writing articles about its unwillingness to aggressively target schemes that multinational companies use to skirt their taxes. He contributed to two reports published by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration: one on conflicts of interest within the I.R.S. and the other on the agency’s refusal to investigate advisers who design and sell aggressive tax strategies.
他表示，国内收入局正利用其个人纳税申报书中相对较小的错误对他进行报复。该诉讼声称，国内收入局非法向司法部检察官披露了他的员工及税务信息，意图诋毁并解雇他。该诉讼已提交至美国伊利诺伊州北区联邦地区法院。美国国内收入局未就置评请求作出回应。
He says the I.R.S. is using relatively small mistakes in his personal tax return to retaliate against him. The suit claims the I.R.S. illegally disclosed his employee and tax information to Justice Department prosecutors to discredit and fire him. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. The Internal Revenue Service did not respond to a request for comment.
维萨利的调查包括对马耳他养老金计划的审查，这是一种富裕美国人使用的避税策略。为对抗这一打击，该方案的推广者聘请了游说者肯·基斯（Ken Kies），后者去年在特朗普总统任内成为财政部最高税务官员。
Mr. Visalli’s investigations included a probe into Malta pension plans, a tax-dodging strategy used by wealthy Americans. To fight the crackdown, promoters of the scheme hired lobbyist Ken Kies, who last year became the top tax official in the Treasury Department under President Trump.
在过去一年中，维萨利先生曾在行业刊物《税务笔记》上撰写文章，批评美国国税局在追查跨国避税者方面的表现。他抨击自己的雇主未能执行2010年的一项法律，该法律要求能够产生税收优惠的交易必须具备“经济实质”。他表示，该机构存在“制度性的怯懦”。他写道，拒绝援引这项法律“意味着美国国税局放弃了其根本责任，即保护美国政府的财政基础免受那些伪装成合法商业规划的复杂税务欺诈行为的影响”。
In the past year, Mr. Visalli has written articles in Tax Notes, a trade publication, criticizing the I.R.S.’s record on pursuing multinational tax dodgers. He attacked his employer for failing to use a 2010 law requiring transactions that generate tax benefits to have “economic substance.”He said the agency suffered from “institutional cowardice.”The refusal to invoke that law “represents a fundamental abdication of the IRS’s responsibility to protect the fiscal foundation of American government from sophisticated tax fraud masquerading as legitimate business planning,” he wrote.