by Lynam Knott | Aug 26, 2015 | IRS Budget
During the 2015 filing season, John Oliver, the host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” argued on the program that the IRS is not only a necessary agency with a difficult job to do but is also a smart investment of public money. Oliver makes some...
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 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 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...
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