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72% of offshore card-holders under-report US taxes, says IRS

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Nearly three out of every four offshore credit card-holders examined in 2005 as part of an IRS clampdown on tax evasion allegedly failed to pay their full taxes.
That was a claim made by Revenue Agent Barbara Kallenberg after a U. S. federal judge asked for additional evidence about the extent of offshore tax evasion before later approving – on February 21, 2006 – an IRS petition to serve a “John Doe” summons on Internet money transfer firm PayPal, Inc.