IRS Reports Record $125 Million Paid To Whistleblowers in 2012

The Internal Revenue Service released its Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress, which details awards paid to whistleblowers under the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006.  The whistleblower award program generally requires the IRS to pay awards if information an individual provides substantially contributes to the collection of tax, penalties, interest, and other amounts when the amounts in dispute are more than $2,000,000.  Awards are based on percentages of the collected proceeds.   According to the report, the IRS collected $592.5 million from the program, including 12 collections of more than $2 million, and paid 128 awards totaling $125.4 million.

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