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IRS Whistleblower Office Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report to Congress (Publication 5241, Rev. 12-2020)

Internal Revenue Service · Government · Dec 2020 · United States

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Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.

What the document holds

IRS Whistleblower Office FY2020 report to Congress (16 PDF pages, two printed pages each; Rev. 12-2020): Director's message (169 awards, $86,619,032; proceeds $472,080,014 split Title 26/non-Title 26; cumulative over $1 billion awarded and $6.14 billion collected; four analysts added; percentage changes not recorded); background and rules; TTB memorandum (3 Dec 2019); COVID-19 impacts; staffing (43 FTE, Figure 1, out of scope); first Whistleblower Program Forum (30 Apr 2020); issues of interest; Table 1 FY2018-2020; Figure 2 claims paid and days/years by type; Figure 3 FY2020 claim numbers by month and type; Table 2A receipts by division; Table 2B receipts sent to field; Figure 4A issued/open/closed; hotline statistics (1,984 calls, 165 a month on average, 308 highest month); Figure 4B whistleblowers by region (already recorded); Figure 5 open 7623(b) claims by year of receipt (bars only, no printed values: nothing to extract); 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 (Figure 2 day figures by label position; Figure 3 series by stacking order, Apr/May labels overlap), hotline counts (enquiries_received, channel=helpline), restated rules and three events.

What it supports

230 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.

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About the document

What it covers FY2018-2020 awards and collections; processing years by claim type; FY2020 receipts by division; referrals; claims issued/open/closed; hotline calls; whistleblowers by region; FY2020 closures by reason.

Notes Extracted from the PDF portfolio p5241--2020.pdf (embedded file p5241--2020-12-00.pdf). Two printed pages per PDF page; locations are PDF pages. Figure 2 day counts are graphics; only the years labels are in the text layer.

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