IRS Whistleblower Program Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report to the Congress (Publication 5241)

IRS Whistleblower Program FY2018 report to Congress (18 pp.): Director's message (record year after the BBA 2018 amendment: 217 awards, $312,207,590; proceeds $1,441,255,859 of which non-Title 26 $809,915,922 and Title 26 $631,339,937, all already recorded; 268 preliminary award letters; percentage changes not recorded); background, rules and new section 7623(c); TIGTA and GAO (FBAR) audits; staffing (36 FTE, Figure 1, out of scope); legislative issues; Table 1 FY2016-2018; Figure 2 claims paid and days/years by type; Figure 3 FY2018 claim numbers by month and type; Table 2(A) receipts by operating division; Table 2(B) receipts sent to field examination by division and type with percentages; Figure 4 issued/open/closed; Figure 5 open 7623(b) claims by year of receipt; Table 3 open claims by phase; Table 4 closures by reason with percent and average days. Added the missing rows of Tables 1-4 and Figures 2, 3 and 5 (Figure 3 series by stacking order; Figure 5 adds to the Table 3 7623(b) total of 15,708), the PARL count (proposed indicator preliminary_award_letters), restated rules. Note: the FY2018 closure counts already in the data use reason slugs with a unicode hyphen; my percentage rows use the plain slugs of the day averages.