Opinion: Congress Intended Tax Whistleblowers to Enjoy De Novo Review
The mandatory tax whistleblower program has been a boon for the U.S. government, bringing in more than $616 million in ...
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The Most Effective Whistleblower Reward System You’ve Never Heard Of
The US’ many whistleblower reward programs are very well known, even outside legal and anti-corruption circles. It’s no secret that ...
Opinion: 2019 IRS whistleblowers flag tax fraud, offshore accounts and unreported income
The IRS just released its annual report on the whistleblower program – showing over $616 million dollars brought into the Treasury ...
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 ...
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 ...
Historic Win for Tax Whistleblowers at International Financial Institutions
DOJ withdraws appeal in criminal tax whistleblower case; whistleblowers to obtain US$12.9 million award WASHINGTON, D.C. | MARCH 29, 2018—The ...
Big Win for Whistleblowers in Bipartisan Budget Act
Crippling Loopholes in the Tax and Wall Street Whistleblower Reward Laws are Closed WASHINGTON, D.C. | February 9, 2018—The Bipartisan ...
Whistleblowers Beware: Your Work Computer Is Probably Monitored
Picture this: while at work you become aware of conduct that you believe is unethical, illegal, or qualifies as government ...
LuxLeaks: Antoine Deltour Recognized as Whistleblower by Luxembourg Court
LUXEMBOURG CITY, LUXEMBOURG | January 11, 2018 — A Luxembourg court today has overturned the verdict against a "LuxLeaks" whistleblower who ...
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