After a Deloitte client’s $2.4B tax dodge faltered, the accounting giant won’t say if it helped others exploit the same loophole

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After a Deloitte client’s $2.4B tax dodge faltered, the accounting giant won’t say if it helped others exploit the same loophole

Late last year, the Internal Revenue Service notched a significant win in its fight against high-end tax dodging when a federal judge in Colorado upheld the agency’s challenge to a $2.4 billion tax deduction claimed by Liberty Global, a multinational telecommunications firm. The case, which centered on a complex offshore tax maneuver that generated the huge write-off for the corporation, was described by one industry observer as the “worst night…