American Tax Officer

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"How are things going, David's recent sources of funding aren't problematic, are they?"

Seeing Rohan and the others downcast and silent, Donald looked towards Welton Heng and said with a tone of a victor, "Consultant Welton Heng, don't you need to glance over it?"

At this moment, Welton Heng's complexion wasn't any better, although he hadn't seen the document, he could tell from the expressions of Rohan and the others that the document was certainly without any points of attack.

Obadiah raised his wristwatch to glance at it, then said, "Since the sources of funds for both candidates are without issues, let's just wait until 12:30 PM to officially confirm the elected nominee!"

As the words fell, Welton Heng stood up in silence and left, while Rohan and the others, though reluctant, had no other options at this point and could only leave one after another.

"Go prepare, Deputy Director Donald."

"Yes."

Having acknowledged with a yes, Donald stood up and quickly returned to his own office, picking up the phone to dial a number: "Walsh, we're down to the last few hours, make sure you keep a close watch on Wall Street, and on Brown too, don't let them pull any stunts."

If Brown could come up with that fifty million in funds, then in these last few hours, it's not guaranteed that he wouldn't bring out another sum of funds.

Donald certainly didn't want to capsize the boat at this final stage.

"Yes, Mr. Donald."

After ending the call with the investigation team in New York, Donald dialed David's number: "The financial review has passed, David, your funds are clear, and so are Brown's. As long as you maintain the lead in tax achievements for the next few hours, you'll be elected!"

"Alright, Deputy Director Donald, I understand..."

In the Lake District Sub-Bureau, David narrowed his eyes into slits after hanging up the phone.

He had known all along that once his financial documents were submitted, the higher-ups at headquarters would definitely not be able to find any faults.

What he hadn't expected, however, was that Brown's funds also passed the review.

If that wasn't because the support from the headquarters was too strong, then this guy's financial document records must have been done too well, making it impossible for Donald and his team to categorize it as an illegal operation.

Of course, there was another possibility, that the incoming funds for Brown really didn't have any issues.

But to be honest, David truly didn't believe that his funds were free of any violation.

Unless, like himself, the other party also had a bug like the golden finger.

But none of these matters were important now, as Donald had said, as long as he could maintain the lead in tax performance for the next few hours, the throne of the Los Angeles Branch Chief would belong to him!

Thinking this, David immediately called Simmons Bakinison and several others over, instructing them to step up their efforts in urging the major prisons to pay up the taxes from their illegal gains, in order to widen the gap further from Brown on the tax achievement leaderboard.

After the general office held a meeting and confirmed the results, the announcement regarding the fund information of David and Brown was quickly published on the intranet.

Seeing such results, inspectors from the various branches across the country were stirred up once again.

"My god, both Brown's and David's funds are without issues?"

"If both their funds have no issues, then they must be legitimate tax revenues. But we're talking about tens of millions of dollars in tax funds, and there are several transactions, how did these two manage to collect them?"

"In this making of gods campaign, there must be one loser, but for our revenue service, there are definitely no losers."

Previously, many of the country's inspectors were guessing that David or Brown might have reached some agreement with the capitalists to receive such a huge sum of campaign funds.

But now that the headquarters' notice has been issued, it proves that neither of the two has reached any agreements with the capitalists, and their funds are clean.

This made many people quite puzzled as to how David and Brown managed to secure such large sums of tax funds.

Amidst discussions among the various branches across the country, the clock struck 12, and the atmosphere became increasingly tense.

In the meantime, the coercion by David's side proved highly effective, with personnel from the three major prisons successively paying their taxes, adding 11 million to his tax performance, bringing his total to 2.19 billion.

As for Brown, on the other hand, the total was still at 1.65 billion unchanged.

New York, Manhattan Branch.

"There's no way, Chief Tax Officer, the inspectors from headquarters are watching closely, it's impossible for Queens District to take such a big risk and transfer the taxes..."

"Bang!!!"

In the office, hearing the report from Kelly who just walked in, Brown slammed the coffee cup he had just picked up onto the floor, his face showing a ferocious expression.

Not long ago, when he heard the news from headquarters confirming that David's funds had no issues, he almost fainted from anger.

After quite a struggle to come back from it, he thought of this one lifeline strategy, but to his dismay, this straw that could have saved him was now mercilessly crushed.

At this moment, he felt an urge to die.

Because for this election, he had sought the help of many capitalists on Wall Street and promised them various tax benefits upon election.

But if he ended up losing, these people would surely come after him to settle accounts.