Jeremy H. Temkin
In 2006, Congress substantially expanded the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Program, giving additional financial incentives to people who provide information about others who cheat on their taxes. Since that time, whistleblowing has become big business, resulting in thousands of submissions each year and generating billions of dollars in recoveries by the IRS.
Over the years, however, whistleblowers and their lawyers have lodged several complaints regarding the IRS’s management of the Whistleblower Program. Principal among these complaints has been the slow pace of processing claims and the relatively stingy awards attributable, in part, to the narrow definition of “collected proceeds” upon which awards are predicated. Last year, Congress provided relief on the latter issue and, not coincidentally, the IRS Whistleblower Office’s most recent report to Congress announced a banner year for recoveries attributed to information provided by whistleblowers, as well as substantially larger awards to the informants.
The Whistleblower Program
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