Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the topic of who gets paid when there exists multiple claims. After having additional time to mull over the question and after discussions with other former IRS attorneys about the issue, I decided that another blog regarding the issue is merited. I, and ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
In a recent speach before the American Bar Association, the IRS announced that the Tax Whistleblower Reward Program is more successful than anticipated. A large spike in submitted claims in 2008 shows that the new whistleblower law is "working as it was intended" since it was revised two years ago, ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
The Franchise Tax Board, California’s version of the IRS, offers a comparable Whistleblower Reward Program. Under the legislation, that was proposed by the Terminator himself, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and passed with bi-partisan support, the state of California gives confidential informants as much as 10% of the unpaid taxes collected as a result ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
What happens when the Whistleblower Office receives multiple claims for reward on the same taxpayer from separate informants? There does not exist a clear answer to this question based on current published guidance.
This question was posed to Steven Whitlock, head of the Tax Whistleblower Reward Program, at the January 9, ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
A Whistleblower can challenge the nonpayment of a reward or the amount of a reward, under the Tax Whistleblower Reward Program, in the U.S. Tax Court. In response to public comments, on October 3, 2008, Tax Court Rule 340 was issued to update the processes and procedures with the goal of ...
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