I.R.S. Records was an American independent record label, launched in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police (which counted Miles' brother Stewart as one of its members), and later, Sting, as well as other bands. The "I.R.S." in the title stands for International Record Syndicate (Inc.), as a play on the initialism of the Internal Revenue Service. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records (UK).