by Lynam Knott | Sep 24, 2015 | Guidance, Judicial Review, Whistleblower Awards
The Tax Court’s September 16th opinion echoes what every whistleblower litigating in Tax Court knows; the IRS’s Whistleblower Administrative File is insufficient. The petitioners in this case moved to compel production of documents and responses to...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Aug 19, 2015 | Award Determinations, IRS Whistleblower Office, Whistleblower Awards
The IRS Whistleblower Office announced August 7th that they finally updated two sections of the Internal Revenue Manual (“IRM”), IRM 25.2.2, Information and Whistleblower Awards – Whistleblower Award and IRM 1.1.26, Organization and Staffing –...
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...
by Stephen U. McCloskey, Jr. | Oct 1, 2014 | Award Determinations, Whistleblower Awards
October 1st 2014 marks the beginning of fiscal year 2015 and a new sequestration reduction rate for whistleblower awards. According to an OMB Report on the reductions for fiscal year 2015, every award payment made to a whistleblower under section 7623 on or...
by Lynam Knott | Sep 23, 2014 | Award Determinations, Whistleblower Awards
Tax whistleblowing took center-stage at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation meeting in Denver last Friday. I had the pleasure of participating in a round table discussion with fellow panelists, Holly Styles, Senior Counsel in the IRS Office of...
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