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The DOJ's Bad Deal with a Tax-Evading Swiss Bank - Part II
October 25th, 2012
When we left off last time it was 2010. Bradley Birkenfeld, the UBS whistleblower, had been sentenced to 40 months in prison for tax evasion and the DOJ had just let UBS off the hook after the bank revealed information on a tiny fraction of the total…
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The DOJ's Bad Deal with a Tax-Evading Swiss Bank - Part I
October 18th, 2012
This is the first part in a two part series of posts explaining the saga of an IRS whistleblower from UBS who spent years fighting his former employer before recently receiving a major reward for all his trouble. To start the story, let’s go ba…
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The 2006 Reforms to False Claims Act
May 24th, 2012
As this Forbes article states, incentives for whistleblowers who report tax fraud have been codified since 1867. However, it’s the 2006 reforms that were supposed to be a boon to whistleblowers everywhere. The relevant provision, codified in 26…
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Grassley Follow-up: Letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner and IRS Commissioner Shulman
May 17th, 2012
Last September, Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman detailing his disappointment of how poorly the agency was using whistleblower provisions available to them under the False Claims Act. The…
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Grassley Letter to IRS Commissioner
May 10th, 2012
As we have discussed in our previous article, Whistleblowers and the IRS, the IRS is often reluctant to utilize the whistleblower provisions available to them under the False Claims Act. This apparent reluctance has come to the attention of an import…
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Whistleblowers and the IRS
April 26th, 2012
On average, there is a $450 billion annual gap between the taxes that are owed to the federal government and the taxes that are actually paid. In theory, those who help the government find those who cheat on taxes and contribute to the shortfall shou…
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Enron Whistleblower Receives $1.1 Million
March 17th, 2011
Almost 2 years before Enron declared bankruptcy and created one of the largest financial meltdowns in history, a whistleblower tipped off the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the company was using illegal tax shelters to generate income. After nea…
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IRS Whistleblowers Could Recover More Rewards
January 27th, 2011
The IRS modified its rules last year which seemingly made it even more difficult for whistleblowers to collect rewards on reports of uncollected taxes to the IRS. Whistleblowers and their attorneys have tried, unsuccessfully, for years to ensure that…
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