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Filed under: Taxes, IRS, Tax LawsGetty Images The IRS still wants your help reporting tax cheats, and they're willing to pay you for it. Now, though, you won't find it quite as rewarding. Because of the automatic spending cuts that took effect earlier this month, the IRS has had to reduce the amount that it pays under its whistleblower program. With the cuts, whistleblowers...
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By Nanette Byrnes Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service paid a record $125.4 million in 2012 to whistleblowers who provided evidence of tax cheating, most of it to a former employee of Swiss bank UBS AG, according to an IRS report made public on Wednesday. The IRS whistleblower program has been criticized for moving too slowly and being given inadequate...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
2012 was a good year for whistleblowers -- and one whistleblower in particular.
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(Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service has rejected a reward claim made by a whistleblower, former banker Joseph Insinga, who had sued the agency in a closely watched case.
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NEW YORK—A U.N. whistleblower who won his case but received only 2 percent of the $2.2 million he sought in damages and costs is asking the U.
denverpost.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
A former state employee has filed a $6.7 million whistleblower lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services, saying she was mistreated and eventually lost her job after pointing out…
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"It's so easy it's ridiculous," the tax preparer whistleblower who exposed the fraud admits. Names are simply listed on the IRS form. "The more you put on there, the more you get back." No questions asked…the check's in the mail.
townhall.com (1 month and 24 days ago)
A former state employee has filed a $6.7 million whistleblower lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services, saying she was mistreated and eventually lost her job after pointing out financial irregularities.
statesmanjournal.com (3 months and 14 days ago)
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission on May 20 will take public comment Xcel Energy's $104 million request to hike gas rates by $104.
denverpost.com (15 days ago)
Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:28:33By Bill Lodge Advocate staff writerA whistleblower who sued Baton Rouge-based Shaw Environment & Infrastructure Inc. for alleged retaliation has been awarded more than $3.4 million by a federal court jury in Anchorage, Alaska. Paul Blakeslee was 71 when he wrote corporate parent Shaw ...
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