The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Program still hasn’t adequately addressed internal problems identified several years ago, according to a new report issued by the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration, or Tigta.
The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, following up on a 2009 audit, said that the IRS needed to do more to ensure that whistleblower claims were accurate and that it had a more concrete timeline for processing claims.
According to the report, the IRS could also more deeply evaluate the effectiveness of its program.
“Without adequate oversight of whistleblower claims, the IRS is not as effective as it could be in responding timely to tax noncompliance issues,” Russell George, the tax administration inspector general, said in a statement. “The IRS’s effort to improve compliance is critical to reducing the Tax Gap and maintaining the integrity of the voluntary tax compliance system.”
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