The IRS is on the verge of crippling its whistleblower program

The IRS is on the verge of crippling its whistleblower program
In 2006, Congress created the IRS Whistleblower Program, which has encouraged whistleblowers to expose vast amounts of tax fraud, and has the potential to expose many billions more.

Despite the demonstrated success of the program, the IRS is now proposing proposed regulations that:

• Severely restrict the scope of the IRS Whistleblower Program by excluding large categories of tax-related violations
• Prohibit whistleblowers for collecting an award on technical grounds even if the IRS would never have discovered the tax fraud without the whistleblowers’ information
• Severely limit the size of whistleblower awards by setting the default award percentage to the smallest possible allowed under law
• Fail to require the IRS to act on whistleblower claims, allowing whistleblower claims to linger for years without resolution or oversight

These types of roadblocks and disqualifications have been discredited. With your help, for example, we successfully fought the SEC’s attempts at similar restrictions.