Just moments ago, the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to recommend H.R. 7959, the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act, to the House of Representatives. This vote means that Ways and Means supports a vote by the full House in support of H.R. 7959, and is a critical step towards the bill eventually being passed into law.
“The passage of this legislation – with a unanimous, bipartisan vote – is a strong signal to the IRS that Congress fully supports the IRS making greater use of the tax whistleblower program,” said Dean Zerbe, an author of the original IRS whistleblower program law and a leading attorney for tax whistleblowers. “The tax whistleblower program has proven highly successful – bringing in billions of dollars from tax cheats while targeting limited IRS resources on bad actors.”
The IRS Whistleblower Programs requires that whistleblowers who submit original information to the IRS leading to successful enforcement against tax fraud receive an award of between 15% and 30% of the sanctions collected by the government. Since its inception, the program has led to government recoveries of over $7.5 billion in tax fraud cases.
However, the program’s efficacy has recently been stifled by delays. Whistleblowers now wait an average of eleven years between submitting an award application and receiving their award.
H.R. 7959 will address this issue by requiring the IRS to pay interest on unnecessarily delayed awards. Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA),...
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