by Scott Knott | May 20, 2021 | Enforcement, IRS Budget, IRS Whistleblower Office
The Treasury Department just released a 22 page report that outlines an initiative which aims to generate an additional $700 billion of revenue over the next 10 years, and this initiative is linked to spending an additional $80 billion on the Internal Revenue Service...
by Lynam Knott | Jan 8, 2018 | Administration of Claims, Congressional Report, IRS Whistleblower Office
Happy New Year! The new year brings a time to reflect back on the past year, on things that went well, things that went not-so-well, and how you would like to do things going forward. In the spirit of looking back over the last year, the IRS Whistleblower Office...
by Lynam Knott | Aug 4, 2017 | Administration of Whistleblower Claims, Award Determinations, IRS Whistleblower Office, Judicial Review
On July 28, 2017, the Tax Court denied the April 14, 2016 Joint Motion to Remand the case to the IRS Whistleblower Office. In the joint motion, the parties represented that the IRS Whistleblower Office had reconsidered its determination. The Tax Court...
by Lynam Knott | Jan 13, 2017 | Award Determinations, Congressional Report, IRS Whistleblower Office, Whistleblower Awards
The IRS released the IRS Whistleblower Program Fiscal 2016 Annual Report to Congress recently. There were some interesting statistical revelations, some surprising and some not. Among the more important, if not surprising, takeaways was the fact that nearly 60%...
by Lynam Knott | Oct 24, 2016 | Administration of Claims, IRS Whistleblower Office, Whistleblower Awards
Today the Treasury Inspector General released a Report titled “The Whistleblower Program Helps Identify Tax Noncomplicane; However, Improvements Are Needed to Ensure That Claims Are Processed Appropriately and Expeditiously” about the IRS Whistleblower...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Feb 10, 2016 | Congressional Report, IRS Whistleblower Office
Today the IRS Whistleblower Office released their Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2015. According to the report, which has been substantially made-over in both appearance and content, the total amount of awards paid in fiscal 2015 was $103,486,677...
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