by Lynam Knott | Mar 10, 2015 | Administration of Whistleblower Claims, Contributor Updates, IRS Whistleblower Office
The IRS Whistleblower Program took center-stage again, this time at the Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation’s 2015 Law Conference in Washington, DC. Scott led the lively panel discussion about the IRS Whistleblower Program with Kevin Gillin,...
by Lynam Knott | Mar 3, 2015 | Administration of Whistleblower Claims, IRS Budget, IRS Whistleblower Office
A consequence of several years of budget cuts at the IRS is a decline in their enforcement efforts. The Wall Street Journal has recently run several stories detailing these statistics, noting new data that shows an overall decline in IRS audit rates for...
by Lynam Knott | Feb 4, 2015 | Aggressive Tax Positions, Dirty Dozen
Each year the IRS publishes a list of common tax scams that taxpayers may encounter during the tax year. These annual lists serve as a way for the IRS to remind taxpayers to use caution during the tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of...
by Lynam Knott | Feb 2, 2015 | IRS Budget, Whistleblower Awards
As we have written about in the past, for the last few years IRS whistleblower awards under section 7623 have been subject to sequestration reductions of between 7.2% and 8.7% (currently 7.3% for fiscal year 2015 awards) pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency...
by Lynam Knott | Oct 29, 2014 | Award Determinations, Whistleblower Awards
Senator Ron Wyden, the current chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley, the former chairman, jointly wrote an article in Politico discussing an important issue to us, the prioritization of whistleblower claims by the IRS. They...
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