Since Congress created the IRS whistleblower program in 2006 to tackle major tax fraud, the IRS has made minimal effort to capitalize on most of the valuable whistleblower information it has received. The IRS’s failure to take advantage of whistleblower information about large-scale tax fraud and abuse is disgraceful and inexplicable. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who authored the legislation creating the IRS whistleblower program, has decried the failure of the IRS to take advantage of the whistleblower program to help with tax enforcement to the extent it should. Biden is the fourth president to take office since Congress strengthened the IRS whistleblower program in 2006. The previous three administrations neglected the IRS whistleblower program, missing out on opportunities to collect billions from wealthy and corporate tax cheats.

Source: Forbes May 11, 2021 20:15 UTC