"They must have the whole tax department out here."

"We could easily do more than that," said a spokesman for the Russian tax department.

He said that first, the government ought to root out corruption among its own in the tax department.

"One is a woman in our tax department who is a mother of two small children."

A number of players had previously been investigated by the German tax department for this reason.

Two years later, he was made acting head of the New York office's tax department.

"I think it will take a lot of work on the part of the tax department to put things together."

He became head of the firm's tax department the next year and 20 years later was named managing partner.

"But then they asked a gentleman from the tax department who was there, 'How much money would we lose?' "

The relationship you have with the tax department is between you and the office.