IRS Stingy With Whistleblower Payouts, Slow to Follow Up on Tips

“The IRS took more than four years to reward a whistleblower through a new program to encourage tipsters and has drawn criticism from the Government Accountability Office for failing to move faster.

A recent GAO study found that the program, which has attracted tips from more than 1,300 whistleblowers, doesn’t collect data that could speed up evaluation of information that started to pour in after Congress authorized the Internal Revenue Service to establish the office in late 2006.”

 

Original article by Andrew Zajac and David Voreacos – Oct 3, 2011

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