by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Sep 17, 2014 | Award Determinations, IRS Budget, IRS Whistleblower Office
If there was ever a question whether IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, believed in the IRS Whistleblower Program, that question was answered affirmatively in his remarks before the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund. At one point, Koskinen even referred to...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Jul 23, 2014 | State Tax Whistleblower
In the third part of a four part series on qui tam suits, Jennifer Carr of Tax Analysts interviewed University of California, Davis School of Law tax professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. about his article, “Not Just Whistling Dixie: The Case for Tax Whistleblowers in...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Apr 3, 2014 | IRS Whistleblower Office
The IRS just completely revised the Application for Reward for Original Information, better known to us as Form 211. The procedures for filing the Form 211 have changed as well. The revised and significantly expanded Form 211, attached at the bottom of...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Citizens for Tax Justice just published a thought provoking five-year tax study of U.S. multinationals, as covered in an article today by Thomas Reuters journalists Kevin Drawbaugh and Patrick Temple-West. The study, which sampled 288 Fortune 500 companies,...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
On February 4th, the IRS released statistics on the filings of Uncertain Tax Position Statements (Schedule UTP) for the 2012 tax year. The statistics show there were 1,743 Schedule UTP filers and 4,166 uncertain tax positions reported for the 2012 tax...
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