American Tax Officer

Gray's nearly pleading posture is what made David pretty satisfied. He spoke up, "Whether you get to be the good guy is up to the court, our Internal Revenue Service only cares about collecting taxes. Pay the taxes you owe, leave the documents with us in the IRS archive, and we'll call it even!"

Upon hearing this, Gray, who had been in a state of despair, instantly brightened up and agreed hastily, "Yes, yes, yes, I'll pay the taxes, and leaving the documents in your archive is doable!"

Bucky immediately stepped up, spread the archiving form in front of Gray, and explained, "Deputy Mayor Gray, please fill in your occupation and income details here..."

About ten minutes later.

Gray signed his name at the end of the form, and Bucky picked it up to have a careful look. After confirming there were no problems, he nodded at David to signal all was in order.

David spoke up, "You may leave now, Deputy Mayor Gray, but make sure to send the taxes you owe as soon as possible!"

"Understood!"

Gray, as if granted a pardon, stood up and, accompanied by Bucky, quickly stepped out of the IRS's doors.

Once he stepped out into the golden sunshine, a sudden surge of joy welled up inside him!

Thinking back over the events from yesterday to today, falling from heaven to hell and then back from hell to heaven, it was an experience he never wished to live through again in his life!

So he resolved in his heart.

Not only would he pay his taxes punctually to the IRS every month, but he would also never involve himself again in anything related to Dieter or tangled with the IRS and other criminal syndicates even if it killed him!

Over in the office area,

David stepped out and made his way to the 3rd floor Inspector's Office.

Seeing him arrive, all the inspectors present stopped what they were doing, stood up, and prepared to listen.

David looked around at the group, and said, "Everyone, I believe many of you have received notifications about getting involved with the Dieter case. Next, I'll give you a brief task assignment!"

Upon mention of task assignments, the seven inspector teams on the scene immediately became excited.

As for Hutton, Hector, and the members of the inspection squad led by David, their faces showed a hint of displeasure.

They were well aware that these seven inspection teams mingling in clearly aimed to share in the spoils.

But it couldn't be helped.

They had already received the notice, which was agreed upon by both Chief Tax Officer William and David, so although they were quite annoyed, they could only begrudgingly accept it.

"The situation we know now is that Dieter and Virginia have escaped back to the reservation, while Sapir has fallen into our hands. Baldwin, Biden, and Gustav are the three individuals we need to focus on capturing!"

Dieter had four lieutenants under him, each managing the venues and the illicit goods trade. Aside from Virginia, the three individuals David named were the other three lieutenants.

"In addition to these three, there is also Benjamin, Wozworth..."

David named a group of Ditter Group's mid-to-upper management backbone, and then finally said to everyone, "Understood?"

"Understood!"

The inspectors on site chimed in unison.

"Then let's get moving!"

No sooner had he spoken than the inspectors wasted no further words, strapped on their sidearms, donned their coats, and left in an organized manner.

In less than a moment, the Inspector's Office, previously bustling with activity, grew silent.

...

Time flew quickly, and in the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

During this period, quite a few of the lower-ranking members and mid-level operatives of the Ditter Group were captured.

These individuals, scrutinized by David with his "golden finger" and under threat, could not talk their way out and coughed up the taxes they owed.

As of today, 96 people were arrested, and the total tax collected amounted to 1.443 million US Dollars.

However, there was something that was slightly disheartening to both David and the other inspectors. Baldwin, Biden, and Gustav seemed to have gotten wind of the operation and gone into hiding; they had not been apprehended yet.

Inside the Chief Tax Officer's office.

David made some rough calculations. The frozen assets from Dieter's accounts amounting to over 15 million plus nearly 3 million US Dollars collected from raids on warehouses, along with 1.44 million plus from the arrests over these days, the total was just over 19 million US Dollars.

After reviewing the tax achievement leaderboard,

since he had been investigating the Dieter case for the past 4.5 days and as the Dieter case had not yet been completely closed, according to IRS regulations, it was not yet eligible to be filed.

So his current tax achievement sat at 4.368 million US Dollars.

As for his ranking, because tax filing had not kept up over these days, his position had fallen from 10th nationally down to 39th.

The current top ranker nation-wide remained Brown Soros, whose total tax achievement reached 19.63 million.

Second place was held by Bellamy Hattie from the Los Angeles Long Beach Branch, with a tax achievement of 15.11 million.

The ones ranking 3rd to 10th had also each broken through the 10 million mark.

With one week left until the end of the assessment period,

going by the time and proportion, it seemed that Brown Soros and Bellamy Hattie would have no problem surpassing the 30 million marks.

Those ranked 3rd to 10th were sure to surpass 20 million too.

As for David, his tax achievement figure of 4.368 million, plus the over 19 million from the Dieter case, would total around 23 million plus.