Senator Grassley Highlights IRS Whistleblower Program in Tax Season Q&A
In a short question and answer post on his website, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) highlighted the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) ...
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Senator Grassley Concerned by IRS Whistleblower Report
On June 13, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to John W. Hinman, Director of the Internal Revenue Service ...
IRS Whistleblower Office Publishes Fiscal Year 2021 Report
On June 7, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office published its annual report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. The ...
John Hinman Announced as Next Director of IRS Whistleblower Office
On May 12, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the next director of the agency’s Whistleblower Office. John W. ...
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 ...
Opinion: Do I Have A Good Case For The IRS Whistleblower Program?
A guest post from Dean Zerbe, senior policy analyst for the National Whistleblower Center and former tax counsel for the Senate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DOJ Drops Case, IRS Whistleblowers to Receive $12.9 Million Award from Criminal Prosecution of Swiss Bank
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice officially dismissed their appeal of case Whistleblower 21276-13W and 21277-13W v. CIR, Case Nos. 17-1119 ...
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