IRS & Tax

Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report on the current effectiveness of the IRS whistleblower program. Since 2007, over 1,300 whistleblowers have filed claims with the IRS Whistleblower Office alleging tax fraud (in excess of $2 million) against...

The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief this week in Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, a case pending at the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief argues...

Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on...

David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to Washington, DC, to spread the word about new opportunities for whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...

Since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instituted a new whistleblower program in 2006, only one award has been made to a whistleblower, according to Mike Hudson from iWatch News. In yesterday’s article, “Red tape, old guard slow whistleblowing on corporate tax...

The Associated Press is reporting that the IRS has issued a whistleblower reward to an in-house accountant at a financial services firm. This accountant became a whistleblower for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), providing inside information about the firm's lapse...

An anonymous Wall Street banker has received a reward of $1.1 million for reporting a massive tax fraud by Enron, Bankers Trust and others. Attorney Erika A. Kelton of Phillips and Cohen announced the reward to her client yesterday. It...

Kohn said the most important step in cases where ordinary citizens step forward to reveal fraud is "who you blow the whistle to and what you say."

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is publishing today a new proposed regulation for its whistleblower reward program. In today's Federal Register, the new regulation makes clear that whistleblowers can receive a reward for providing information that prevents the IRS from...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today on the hurdles that whistleblowers face when they provide tips about financial fraud to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...