Investigate carried interest of hedge funds and private equity firms, dividends and dividend swaps tax minimizing transactions, offshore entities, deferred compensation tax schemes. There is rampant fraud in the system right now (income is not being reported). Secretaries pay higher taxes than Steve Schwarzman, David Tepper, Ken Griffin, Steven Cohen, and David Bonderman, even though these guys make hundreds of millions or billions per year. Some have offshore entities to manage their personal taxes as well. Moreover in partnership arrangements, they have made their employees limited partners and tax paying partners, while they reap the gains, and then steal the employees wages at the end. Some documents are signed overseas specifically for the reason of tax avoidance.



