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Yellen Dodges Senate Whistleblower Question
1/25/21 11:30 EST Update: On January 25, the U.S. Senate voted 84-15 to confirm Janet Yellen as the Secretary of the Treasury. On January 21, the United States Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing on the nomination of Janet...
IRS Whistleblower Program Recovered $472 Million in 2020 – But Office is Plagued by Massive Delays
On December 29, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office released its Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report. The report highlights the central role whistleblowers have played in IRS enforcement efforts and the degree to which whistleblowers have been correspondingly rewarded....
Whistleblower Advocates Call on Congress to Strengthen IRS Tax Whistleblower Program to Combat COVID-19 Related Tax Fraud
In open letters to the Senate Finance Committee and House Committee on Ways and Means, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) urged the committees to strengthen the IRS Whistleblower Program. The whistleblower advocacy group said yesterday that it is concerned about...
Israeli Bank Hit with Massive Penalty for Tax Evasion
An article published by SwissInfo on Friday reports that Israeli bank Hapoalim has been fined nearly $875 million by the U.S., one of the largest penalties imposed by the U.S. in tax evasion probing history. According to SwissInfo, the bank...
IRS Warns Taxpayers of Increased COVID-19 Frauds, Encourages Reporting of Scams
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning to taxpayers about fraudulent schemes related to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. The IRS urged those more vulnerable to scams, such as the elderly, to take extra precautions. "We urge people to...
Opinion: New Law Provides Protections For Tax Whistleblowers And Better Communication With IRS
A guest post from Dean Zerbe, senior policy analyst for the National Whistleblower Center and former tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. Tax whistleblowers had good news the other day with the Taxpayer First Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-25)...
Report: Swiss bank whistleblower has more to say, wants a pardon
https://youtu.be/TejOqLbDQT4?t=306 The Swiss bank whistleblower who outed Americans’ secret USB bank accounts says he has information on more wrongdoing. Bradley Birkenfeld, who is described on his website as the “worlds most celebrated whistleblower,” appeared at an offshore fraud and financial...
Don’t die waiting for an IRS whistleblower award. Get better service on Capitol Hill?
More whistleblowing in the halls of Congress and other news of the week. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement this week in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA)....
Whistleblowers helped the IRS collect more money than ever last year: $1.4 billion in fines and forfeiture
Whistleblowers helped the IRS collect more than $1.4 billion in criminal fines, civil forfeitures, and reporting violations in fiscal year 2018, according to an agency report released Wednesday. Of that record amount, more than $300 million went to IRS whistleblowers...
GAO Report Finds Excluding FBAR Violations from Award Calculations “Negatively Affected Whistleblowers’ Willingness to Bring Information to IRS”
In February 2018, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, requiring the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to include penalties for Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) violations in calculating whistleblower awards. Prior to this statutory change being signed into...
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