Christina McMahon Appointed Acting Deputy Chief Counsel
We would like to announce that Christina McMahon has been detailed for six months to the position of Acting Deputy Chief Counsel. Ms. McMahon comes to us from Treasury’s Office of General Counsel (Enforcement & Intelligence) where she is the Legal Counsel for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), the Treasury Department’s intelligence community component.
Ms. McMahon has prior experience working at TTB, serving as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Regulations and Rulings Division and then in the Office of the Chief Counsel as an attorney-advisor in the Tax and Trade Division. Ms. McMahon received both her law degree and B.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Offers in Compromise Accepted in Tax and Trade Practice Cases
 We recently accepted a $130,000 offer in compromise from Global Universal SRL, for alleged violations of federal excise tax-related provisions at their distilled spirits plant in Monroe, Wisconsin.
We also accepted a $325,000 offer in compromise from Iowa Beverage Systems (IBEV), an alcohol beverage wholesaler located in Des Moines, Iowa, to settle alleged trade practice violations. The violations included purchasing tap handles and making payments to a retailer in exchange for only buying IBEV products.
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