2015 Annual Report on the IRS Whistleblower Program is Expected Sooner than Later.

 When Congress authorized the new IRS Whistleblower Program in December 2006, it required annual reporting to Congress about how the new whistleblower provisions were being used, the results obtained, and any recommendations to be implemented to improve the program.  This was essentially a report card by the Whistleblower Office that informed the world what it had accomplished and the direction it was moving.  This was also Congress’ way of evaluating how the most powerful tool for tax enforcement that Congress could have given the IRS was being used.

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Yahoo and its turn at alphabet soup.

As I have previously written, see Google and its alphabet soup, it appears as if it is Yahoo’s turn to play alphabet soup.  As of Monday, Yahoo disclosed that it was “spinning off” its stake in the Alibaba Group (the Chinese internet giant) into a separately publicly traded company.

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IRS WHISTLEBLOWER OFFICE

The Tax Relief and Health Care Act Of 2006 authorized the IRS to establish an IRS Whistleblower Office with the purpose to centralize and monitor tips from whistleblowers so that awards would be paid in a timely manner. 

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