IRS Whistleblower Program Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Report to the Congress (Publication 5241)

IRS Whistleblower Program FY2014 report to Congress (24 pp.): executive summary (record 14,365 claims; 101 awards totalling $52,281,628 before a $3,764,722 sequestration cut, 16.9 percent of collections); program history and rules; final regulations 12 Aug 2014 and Deputy Commissioner memo 20 Aug 2014 (events already recorded); eleven 7623(b) payments since FY2011; staffing (40 to 43, out of scope); legislative proposals; Appendix A statute; Table 1 claims received and open by year of receipt (pre-2010 to 2014, as of 14 May 2015); Table 2 FY2014 receipts by operating division and claim type; Table 3 FY2014 closures by reason and year of receipt (80 percent received in FY2013-14); Table 4 open potential-7623(b) claims by 21 statuses; Table 5 days in status; Table 6 awards FY2010-2014 incl. collections over $2 million and percentages. Added: Table 1 total, Table 2 by division, Table 3 by year of receipt, Tables 4-5 in full, Table 6 over-$2-million and percentage rows, the 80 percent statement, restated rules. All tables add up. The rise of 3,845 claims on FY2013 is a difference and is not recorded. Note: Table 6 award amounts are before sequestration (the FY2014 rows already in the data carry no before_sequestration flag). Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).