It’s called the Global High Wealth Industry Group, and it falls under the Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business and International Division. It’s also been called “The Wealth Squad.” The unit, launched in 2010, aims to “take a holistic approach in addressing the high wealth taxpayer population; to look at the complete financial picture of high wealth individuals and the enterprises they control,” according to a description in an IRS revenue manual. The unit’s cases involve an individual’s tax return “and related income tax returns where the individual has a controlling interest and significant compliance risk is deemed to exist.” Things that can get sucked into these cases include “interests in partnerships, trusts, subchapter S corporations, C corporations, private foundations, gifts, and the like.”
Source: You Do Not Want to Be On the Radar of the IRS Wealth Squad
