IRS & Tax

In an unusual move, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has decided to appoint a lawyer for Milwaukee tax whistleblower Mike DeGuelle (pictured). Tax.com reports today that  DeGuelle blew the whistle on a prolonged tax cheating scheme...

Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called on President Barack Obama to pardon tax whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. "In addition to a turkey, Obama should pardon a whistleblower...

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the Philippine Bureau of Customs has filed charges that Oillink, an import company, cheated the government out of 700 million Philippine pesos (16 million US dollars). The Bureau of Customs discovered the fraud through...

60 minutes will re-air their piece on UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld tonight. Please tune in to watch at 7:00 pm EST then Take Action by sending a letter in support of Mr. Birkenfeld's clemency petition.   https://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf

Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post is quoting Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, in a story appearing on today's Fed Page. Called, "Immigration agency assailed over leak probe," the story reports on criticism the immigration...

The Washington Post is running a story today by David Hilzenrath on page A11 called, "Change in IRS rules could block rewards for whistleblowers." The story focuses on a manual by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) called the Internal Revenue...

n an unprecedented move the Swiss parliament voted to approve a deal between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and UBS in which UBS has agreed to turn over the names of 4,450 U.S. citizens who held secret and illegal bank...

In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names of 19,000...

This Sunday's Washington Post featured an article that details Bradley Birkenfeld's actions as a whistleblower, and how those actions landed him in federal prison. The article discusses the contradictory messages sent to potential whistleblowers by the U.S. government:

Attorneys for Bradley Birkenfeld, the Swiss banker who exposed the massive ($20 billion) tax evasion scandal at UBS, Stephen M. Kohn and Dean Zerbe wrote an op-ed piece entitled "April 15 Plea: Pardon Tax Whistleblower" published on Forbes.com. Mr. Kohn...