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A federal judge has granted the Internal Revenue Service the right to seek information from First Data Corp. about certain credit-card transactions the company has processed.
The IRS wants the information as part of its crackdown on tax evaders.
Specifically, the IRS wants information about holders of American Express, Visa and MasterCard credit cards that were issued by or on behalf of certain offshore financial institutions.
The government listed more than 30 offshore jurisdictions, including Aruba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland.
The IRS said in a court filing that it believes those account holders "may fail, or may have failed, to comply with internal revenue laws."
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