American Tax Officer

"Indeed, it's the airport, it seems Inspector David is off to Silicon Valley!"

"Inspector David has already visited Silicon Valley once before, but that time it was to investigate Satoshi Nakomoto, and this time it's a clear move to conduct a tax audit on the area, those major companies are in for a headache."

"Actually, Silicon Valley has been audited before, Amazon, for instance, and now it's time for Gugo, Microsoft, Oracle, and these companies!"

Under national discussion, David had already arrived at Washington International Airport and soon boarded a flight to San Francisco.

After nearly three hours of flight, the plane entered the jurisdiction of San Francisco, landing smoothly at SFO Airport.

The cabin doors opened, and a group of four people came out.

"Ni... Jerry, has the person from the Bay Area Branch arrived yet?"

David initially meant to call for Nisen, but suddenly realized he had assigned Nisen to patrol a major district under his jurisdiction and quickly corrected himself.

The man named Jerry, following him, was an inspector in his department, also a former Marine, skilled in combat, whom he had brought along as protection.

Besides Jerry, two other protective inspectors had come, one named Manson, and the responsible director for the Silicon Valley area, Strakosha.

"They are here, right there, he's seen us!"

Looking in the direction Jerry was pointing, they indeed saw a man in a suit waving at them, and they promptly walked over.

"Inspector David, hello, I'm Makala, an inspector from the Bay Area Branch."

"Inspector Makala, hello."

After shaking hands, Makala led them and their party to the parking outside and got into a Toyota van.

The Bay Area Branch was located at 45 Donner St., directly opposite the entrance to Silicon Valley.

Meanwhile, in an office at the branch, Director Bruna received a text message and immediately picked up a desk phone to notify the branch's other high officials to head to the first-floor lobby to greet David's arrival.

Soon, the branch's top officials arrived in the first-floor lobby.

After arriving, Bruna immediately asked, "Deputy Director Freyna, the tax reports for those companies in Silicon Valley have been redrawn, right?"

"They have been."

Bruna nodded, looked toward another person, and asked, "Tax Investigator Ono, the tax cases our branch has re-examined, any serious issues?"

"The past two days, I've been checking them over again with two inspection teams, and there shouldn't be any major problems."

The Japanese-descended Tax Investigator named Ono replied.

Throughout the following period, Bruna successively questioned the senior officials in the branch, and after confirming that the branch wouldn't encounter any major mishaps, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, as a new official, David was definitely going to make a bold move, and she certainly did not want her Bay Area Branch to get burned first.

"They're here!"

Amidst her thoughts, the voice of an inspector caused everyone to immediately look up.

Indeed, the Toyota van that had gone to pick David from the airport had returned, and when the doors opened, the group that emerged was none other than David and his party.

Given that David was now part of the IRS's senior management and held the significant position of Chief Tax Investigator, Bruna did not dare to neglect and immediately greeted him, "Chief Inspector David, welcome to our Bay Area Branch for the inspection."

"Director Bruna, long time no see."

Having already met with Director Bruna during his last visit to Silicon Valley for the Satoshi Nakamoto investigation, David was no stranger to her.

"By the way, you've received the notice from headquarters too. Director Bruna, how prepared is your branch?"

"From the moment we received the headquarters' notice about the Tax Audit Operation, we in the Bay Area Branch have been on alert. I can assure you that all our inspectors are as vigilant as can be, just waiting for your command, Chief Inspector David!"

"Very good, then let's change the location and talk."

Since he had come to Silicon Valley before to investigate some individuals and now that the time had come, it was natural to collect the data acquired at that time.

Of course, all this would need the help of the Bay Area Branch.

"Please..."

Bruna led David to her office, and then David began to assign him tasks...

...

In Silicon Valley, in a meeting room of Gugo, representatives from renowned companies like Oracle and Microsoft were already present, but each face was incredibly grim.

"I believe everyone here has received the news that IRS's David has arrived here. I wonder what your opinions are on this?"

As the organizer of this meeting, Gugo's CEO Ryan Fraser also looked towards the people and asked. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

Even though they all shared the common backer, Freemasonry, Freemasonry seemed clearly unable to reach out due to ongoing hearings and had not recovered yet; hence, they could only try to save themselves.

"He's come so let him investigate, as far as we at Oracle are concerned, we have a clear conscience and fear no investigation!"

"Hehe, you claim Oracle has a clear conscience? Do not tell me that during your acquisition of Sun Microsystems in '09 for $74 million, your $1.7 billion acquisition of networking product maker Acme Packet in '13, and... you dare to claim these transactions had no issues; and do you dare to say, with David's methods, he won't find even a single issue?"