IRS Whistleblower Program Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report to the Congress (Publication 5241, Rev. 2-2016)

IRS Whistleblower Program FY2015 report to Congress (18 pp., Rev. 2-2016), first on a three-fiscal-year basis: Director's message (cumulative $403 million awarded on over $3 billion collected; claims received down 17 percent and closures up 27 percent, changes not recorded); background and rules; 19 award payments involving 49 7623(b) claims; staffing and Figure 1 FTEs by unit FY2013-2015 (out of scope); program review; legislative proposals; Table 1 awards, claims related to paid awards, collections over $2 million, amounts and percentages FY2013-2015 (pre-sequestration); Figure 2 claims paid and average days/years to process by claim type; Figure 3 FY2015 claims received by month and type (stand-alone, master, related); Figure 4 claims received, open, closed FY2013-2015; Table 2 open claims by processing phase and claim type at 30 Sep 2015; Table 3 FY2015 closures by reason with percentages (79 percent from FY2014-15 receipts; Closed-Other down 24 percent, not recorded); glossary. Added: over-$2-million and percentage rows, Figure 2 claim counts and year figures, Figure 3 by month (36 chart labels, adding to 12,078; series assigned by stacking order), Table 2 by phase, Table 3 percentages, the 79 percent share, restated rules. Everything else was already in the data.