- The change in the statute from "collected proceeds" to "proceeds" with a broadening of the base for whistleblower awards to clearly encompass non Title 26 collections (such as FBAR penalties and criminal fines related to tax crimes).
- The scope of review for Tax Court whistleblower cases.
- Appellate venue to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for Tax Court whistleblower cases.
- The WBO's fye 2017 statistics for whistleblower cases.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Whistleblower Matters - Update (4/21/18)
I have made updates to the working draft of the Federal Tax Procedure book based, in part, on a recent posting on the Procedurally Taxing Blog -- Keith Fogg, Don’t Expect a Whistleblower Award for Giving the IRS Privileged Information and General Information from the Judicial Conference on this Issue (Procedurally Taxing Blog 4/16/18), here. Also included in the updates are the recent statutory changes to the whistleblower awards program. I link here a pdf of a red-line of the Whistleblower chapter -- Chapter 19. Whistleblower Awards -- showing the changes in the working draft from the 2018 edition. This is a footnoted edition of the draft of the chapter. The principal new items covered are:]
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