The US Court of Federal Claims wrongly determined it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear a tax whistleblower award case based on whether it was ripe for decision, the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision narrowly determined the claims court had mistakenly concluded that lack of ripeness is a jurisdictional bar to hearing a case. In discussing the ripeness of the case, the claims court noted whistleblower James W. Tindall had a concurrent US Tax Court case and that he had refused to accept the IRS’s recommended award.

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