Eric Hylton

Hylton held several prominent positions at the IRS, including serving as Deputy of the Criminal Investigation Division and as CI’s head of International Operations.

As National Director, Eric employs his years of experience at the IRS to assist alliantgroup’s clients as an ambassador for U.S. small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and in helping others become tax compliant

Select Career Accomplishments

• Civil Investigation: Directed the Internal Revenue Service’s Audit and Collection tax operations with a $2.2 billion yearly budget and 20,000 nationwide employees, with oversight for 800,000 audits and billions of tax dollars assessed and collected.
• Criminal Investigation: Oversaw the sixth-largest US Federal law enforcement agency, with a worldwide staff of approximately 3,000 employees that resulted in over 6,000 investigations recommended for prosecution, leading to thousands of individuals convicted and sentenced.
• Fraud Investigation: Revolutionized the IRS’ National Fraud Program, including establishing emerging threat teams, revamping organizational structure, revising metrics, and streamlining processes that resulted in multimillion-dollar fraud schemes referred for criminal purposes.
• International Partnership: Led a multilateral commission of 40 international criminal tax organizations to establish global methodologies on emerging financial fraud threats that resulted in significant legislative changes, billions in revenue, and the establishment of joint international investigative teams. Eric Hylton Former IRS Commissioner of the Small Business/ alliantgroup National Director of Compliance Dawn.