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Tax Court Decision: Congress Needs to Act to Ensure No Holiday for Big Time Tax Cheats
Washington, D.C. March 15, 2016. The Tax Court in Whistleblower 22716-13W v. CIR(146 TC 6) decided March 14, 2016 held that the term “additional amounts” as used in 7623(b)(5)(B) does not include FBAR civil penalties. FBAR civil penalties are a...
Sounding the Alarm: U.S. Whistleblower’s Involvement in French UBS Investigation
This past Saturday, February 20, 2016, Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France revealed the contents of an internal UBS memo that discussed “navigating below the radar screen” to grow its business by enticing French clients to hide their money in Swiss bank...
IRS Whistleblower Program Continues Improvements
This was a banner year for the IRS Whistleblower Program. In its annual report to Congress, released February 10, 2016, the IRS said it paid 99 awards totaling more than $103 million. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National...
Swiss Bank Whistleblower Calls for Switzerland to Protect Whistleblowers
Swiss bank whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld was featured yesterday in an article detailing the extremely hostile environment that exists in Switzerland toward whistleblowers. In the article Birkenfeld states that change is “long overdue” for the country which has prosecuted several whistleblowers...
IRS Awards Whistleblowers over $315 Million
Washington, D.C. November 30, 2015. A Government Accountability Office Report issued today confirmed that the IRS Whistleblower Office has made 500 awards to whistleblowers amounting to over $315 million in claims paid since 2011. A copy of the GAO Report...
Press Statement – Tax Whistleblower Receives $11.6 Million Dollar Award
Attorneys Stephen Kohn and Dean Zerbe are pleased to announce today that a joint client – who wishes to remain anonymous – received a whistleblower award under the new IRS whistleblower award program of $11.6 million dollars. “We greatly appreciate...
IRS Whistleblower Program Releases 2014 Report to Congress
On July 6, 2015 the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office released its Report to Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014. According to the report, in 2014 the Whistleblower Office received more claim submissions than in any other year. The...
Tax Court Delivers Victory For Tax Whistleblowers
In a significant pro-whistleblower decision yesterday, the Tax Court in a decision 144 TC 15 (Whistleblower 21276-13W v. IRS) made it clear that the IRS couldn’t deny a whistleblower an award because they filed a request for an award after the...
UBS Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld Speaks
Bradley Birkenfeld, former UBS banker turned whistleblower tells his story in an article released today by CNBC's Eamon Javers. Why did the US pay this former Swiss banker $104M? is accompanied by several short videos of the the interview Javers conducted with...
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