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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday to beef up the Internal Revenue Service’s whistleblower program and protect tax tipsters.
The
IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act includes seven measures to bolster the already successful program, which has brought in over $6 billion from individuals and businesses that were trying to avoid taxes. The
bill would provide for “de novo” review in appeals heard by the U.S. Tax Court, permitting new evidence to be admitted to the record, and providing a presumption of anonymity for whistleblowers before the court. The legislation would also exempt whistleblower awards from congressional budget sequestration measures, which could reduce the amounts, and provide that interest be paid to awardees if the award has not been paid within one year. It would also bring the tax treatment of attorney’s fees into line with other whistlebl
Monday, April 5, 2021
Last week the Ninth Circuit issued a win for taxpayers in
US v. Boyd, limiting penalties for non-willful violations of the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The FBAR requirement applies to all United States persons with interest in or authority over a foreign financial account where the aggregate value of all such accounts is more than $10,000. Jane Boyd, a United States citizen, was required to file an FBAR due to her multiple bank accounts in the United Kingdom but failed to do so in 2010. After voluntarily disclosing the accounts through the IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, the IRS found that she had committed thirteen FBAR violations, one for each overseas account.
Last week the Ninth Circuit issued a win for taxpayers in US v. Boyd, limiting penalties for non-willful violations of the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial.