DOJ Drops Case, IRS Whistleblowers to Receive $12.9 Million Award from...
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 and 1120 (D.C. Cir.), marking a big win for IRS...
View ArticleCBS News Special Features Biofuels Fraud Whistleblower
Whistleblower on CBS show On Friday, August 31, CBS News will air a segment featuring biofuels fraud whistleblower, Alex “Sasha” Chepurko on the season finale of Whistleblower. The episode, Case of...
View ArticleGAO Report Finds Excluding FBAR Violations from Award Calculations...
In February 2018, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, requiring the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to include penalties for Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)...
View ArticleWhistleblowers helped the IRS collect more money than ever last year: $1.4...
Whistleblowers helped the IRS collect more than $1.4 billion in criminal fines, civil forfeitures, and reporting violations in fiscal year 2018, according to an agency report released Wednesday. Of...
View ArticleDon’t die waiting for an IRS whistleblower award. Get better service on...
More whistleblowing in the halls of Congress and other news of the week. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement this week in honor of the 30th...
View ArticleReport: Swiss bank whistleblower has more to say, wants a pardon
The Swiss bank whistleblower who outed Americans’ secret USB bank accounts says he has information on more wrongdoing. Bradley Birkenfeld, who is described on his website as the “worlds most...
View ArticleNew Law Provides Protections For Tax Whistleblowers And Better Communication...
A guest post from Dean Zerbe, senior policy analyst for the National Whistleblower Center and former tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. Tax whistleblowers had good news the other day with...
View ArticleIRS Warns Taxpayers of Increased COVID-19 Frauds, Encourages Reporting of Scams
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning to taxpayers about fraudulent schemes related to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. The IRS urged those more vulnerable to scams, such as the...
View ArticleIsraeli Bank Hit with Massive Penalty for Tax Evasion
An article published by SwissInfo on Friday reports that Israeli bank Hapoalim has been fined nearly $875 million by the U.S., one of the largest penalties imposed by the U.S. in tax evasion probing...
View ArticleWhistleblower Advocates Call on Congress to Strengthen IRS Tax Whistleblower...
In open letters to the Senate Finance Committee and House Committee on Ways and Means, the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) urged the committees to strengthen the IRS Whistleblower Program. The...
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