American tax officials

Chapter 58 Target locked: Spy!

Although Coffdale is a highly skilled hacker, he is ultimately just an ordinary person.

Hearing about the terrifying details of water torture, and then imagining it being used on myself, I was already terrified out of my wits.

"You should be thankful that the first thing they're contacting you about isn't the CIA, but the IRS!"

"We in the IRS aren't those 'butchers' from the CIA; we're very principled!"

"Pay us your taxes, and we promise to walk away without a second thought. As for who you are or your identity, we'll pretend we know nothing!"

Coverdale, who was already on the verge of giving up, grasped at David's words as if they were a lifeline, and blurted out, "Are you telling the truth? But you just said that's treason!"

In his view.

Although the IRS and CIA have different responsibilities, they are both law enforcement agencies of the country. Given the severity of his crime, it's impossible that these two departments were completely unaware of each other's involvement.

I'm afraid that if he pays the money, he'll end up in the hands of the CIA, and then he'll really lose both his money and his life!

David shrugged, looking completely innocent, and replied, "So what if it's treason? It's none of our tax bureau's business. Our tax bureau is only responsible for collecting taxes!"

"..."

Coffdale was somewhat speechless.

However, just now David was standing on the moral high ground, accusing him of being unprincipled and committing treason for money.

But now that I think about it, if he paid his taxes, the IRS would keep his treason a secret, wouldn't that also be considered treason in a way?

If he has no principles when it comes to money, then isn't the IRS equally unprincipled?

The only difference is that the IRS is legally unprincipled, while he is illegally unprincipled.

Coffdale found it increasingly ridiculous, but regardless, things had come to this point and he had no choice. With a sense of defeat, he could only say, "Fine, I'll hand it over, but I hope you'll keep your promise and not expose me!"

David and Nissen exchanged a glance, both wearing smug smiles. Finally, David turned to Nissen and said, "Don't worry, we'll keep our promise. But if the CIA contacts you, don't blame us!"

David then cautioned, "While your skills are superb, we can still find clues about you. The CIA isn't all useless. Just a friendly reminder, you need to be careful!"

He identified this area through Dan.

If the CIA is willing to put in the effort, locking down this area shouldn't be too difficult.

The only difficulty is that the CIA doesn't have his kind of magic touch and can't pinpoint Coverdale exactly.

Regardless, this is a potential threat to Koffdale himself.

He didn't want to see the guy arrested, since as long as the guy wasn't arrested, he could continue to generate tax revenue for the IRS.

Koffdale paused for a moment to think.

David is absolutely right. For safety's sake, it seems we can't stay here any longer!

"By the way, I wanted to ask you something!"

Coffdale stopped thinking, looked up, and asked, "What is it?"

"I'm very interested in the spy you contacted. Could you please reveal his identity to me?"

Previously, through the Golden Finger's scrutiny function, David discovered that the spy who had contacted Coverdale was hiding in the Lake District.

He naturally didn't want to miss out on such a lucrative opportunity with a large sum of money at his disposal.

Koverdale's face darkened, and he reluctantly replied, "That's a spy from the Bear Kingdom, not an ordinary person. Betraying him would put me in great danger..."

"Don't worry, we won't let you take the risk for nothing. According to the provisions of our Black Tax Act..."

David explained the tax relief policy.

Upon hearing that he could receive a 10-15 percentage point tax reduction, Coffdale was instantly tempted. After much deliberation, he made up his mind and said, "Actually, I don't know his true identity very well either. My transactions with him are all conducted without physical contact!"

"Non-contact?"

David and Nixon were somewhat confused.

"As you know, these spies are very careful. Whether we communicate by phone or online, we can be detected by the CIA or the Department of Homeland Security."

"Therefore, every time he met with me, he would choose a fixed area where he would leave money and materials that he needed me to do."

After listening to Coffdale's explanation, David and Nissen understood.

But Nissen quickly retorted, "Since you're a hacker, why don't you just hack into their databases or something? That way you'd know who he is!"

Koffdale looked at Nissen with an expression as if he were an idiot and replied, "Do you know where the world's most powerful hacker group comes from?"

"From the Bear Country!"

"There are at least 50 people there who are more skilled than me."

"If I dare to hack into their database, I'll be dead before I even know how I died!"

Hearing this, Nissen was puzzled again and asked, "If they have so many skilled hackers, why would they need you to hack into the CIA?"

"It's very simple. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other departments have set up a firewall for this country. No matter how advanced the technology, it's very difficult to breach from the outside; it can only be breached from the inside!"

Both Nissen and David understood what he meant.

David said, "Alright, then you two should still be in contact soon, right?"

Based on the information provided by the Golden Finger, he knew that their cooperation was not yet completely over.

"I just received the latest information today and have already contacted him through special channels. I expect he'll give me instructions soon!"

"Okay, let me know if anything happens!"

……

"Are you sure you don't want to go back and rest?"

On the way back to the Lake District Precinct, David, who was driving the surveillance vehicle, looked at the somewhat tired Nison and couldn't help but ask him a question.

Nissen waved his hand and replied, "No need, missing one night won't kill me!"

"Alright..."

It was half an hour later when I got back to the station.

Half an hour later, Coffdale, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, arrived with the money he had prepared.

Because the spy hasn't been found yet, the tax breaks haven't taken effect, so he prepared $316800 this time.

After the filing and inventory processes, this case was finally completed.

As Mary prepared to withdraw the money and put it into the treasury, David added, "By the way, Mary, split 6 of this money and allocate it equally to the tax returns of the other three groups in our team!"

Mary was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

Inviting other groups to perform tasks, thereby allocating tax revenue to the remaining groups, is an unspoken rule.

It's unheard of for someone to pay such a large sum of tax—6—in one go.

However, this was David's own tax record, and he could allocate it however he wanted. She didn't ask any further questions, nodded in agreement, and turned to leave.

(End of this chapter)