Phillip Lee

Phillip Lee is a retired federal auditor with 29 years of performing compliance audits and 2 years in Quality Assurance at DCAAA and US Customs Regulatory Audit. During his career, he completed hundreds of compliance audits resulting in tens of milions of dollars in revenue recovered by the federal government. The author is calling for a "revolution" in how compliance audits are being conducted in the federal government. Compliance audits are supposed to be adversarial in nature. However, over time, many federal auditors have forgotten this and have lost the fighting spirit and ability. The author was assigned the most difficult audits at the largest defense contractors and importers. In order to survive and succeed, the author developed a step-by-step strategy instilled with a martial spirit to win at compliance audits!

The federal government is in a huge financial mess. The federal deficit is over $31 trillion dollars and rising by the day. The federal government is unable to cut spending or raise taxes. One of the few ways to raise revenue is by performing more efficient, effective, and organized audits with a renewed focus on collecting unreported revenue from defense contractors, importers, etc. Isn't it time they paid their fair share! The beauty of this idea is that it won't cost the federal government anything other than the purchase of this book and a change in the gray matter between the ears of the readers of this book! There are thousands of auditors performing these compliance audits at any moment in time. We don't need tens of thousands of new auditors like the Internal Revenue Service to accomplish this. We can do it with the auditors we have. They just need to be trained to re-focus their efforts.

The author believes this book can also be used by state and local tax auditors performing compliance audits. The general concepts of my POER strategy should be somewhat applicable to all audits.

I have also included a plan to combat trade-based money laundering using existing government resources to possibly help in the fight against Fentanyl.