In a letter dated June 21, 2010 to Secretary Geithner,Senator Grassley, who authored this law, was very straight forward and made clear the intentions of this law. Senator Grassley was in disbelief as to the ill intent and misguided interpretations for proposed changes to the IRM that the IRS was attempting to make prior to the before mentioned 6/21/2010 letter. In that letter Senator Grassley directs Secretary Geithner (item no.7 of letter) to "Compare the standard for collected proceeds to the basis for awards under the False Claims Act".(FCA) Under the FCA awards to relator include recoveries from the defendant for procedings that are not a part of the relator's FCA suit. This is known as an alternate remedy. Wouldn't that clearly help the IRS determine the definition of "any related action" as it states in the original law authored by Senator Grassley? I brought a case to the IRS that includes many different issues other than tax issues.Everytime the IRS is affected in my case so is the market and consumers, which requires multiple related actions and several different federal agencies need to be informed of those violations. My original IRS contact agent said that the Irs Whistleblower office would handle all these various non-Title 26 issues through this case and now after 38 months of hearing absolutely nothing about my case, the IRS says they are only considering awards based on Title 26 issues . That's contrary to the intent of the law and is unacceptable! It appears that the IRS spends more time trying to figure out ways to unjustly take as much money away from a whistleblower as they can instead of focusing on recovering as much money owed and ripped off from our government as they can and should be doing. The attitude of the IRS towards whistleblowers is costing our goverment billions of dollars, as it could in my case, when is this childish attitude going to change? Why has this behavior been allowed to go on for so long?
Awards for Information Relating to Detecting Underpayments of Tax or Violations of Internal Revenua Laws (REG-141066-09)
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Awards for Information Relating to Detecting Underpayments of Tax or Violations of Internal Revenue Laws
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