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IRS Whistleblower Office Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report to Congress (Publication 5241, Rev. 12-2021)

Internal Revenue Service · Government · 2022 · United States

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CompleteReviewed 8 Oct 2026

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

What the document holds

IRS Whistleblower Office FY2021 report to Congress (18 PDF pages, two printed pages each; published 2022): Director's message (over 2,500 awards and $1.05 billion since 2007; 179 awards, $36,144,926; proceeds $245,303,646 split Title 26/non-Title 26; payments in 17/51 days; percentage changes not recorded); background and rules; CFO internal reviews; COVID-19; disaggregation policy; CARES Act NOL carrybacks (general tax law, not recorded); reorganisation 18 Jul 2021 and Figure 1 FTEs (out of scope); outreach (round table 10 Jun 2021); issues of interest incl. NDAA 2021 overlap; Table 1 FY2021 by subsection; Figures 2(A)-(D) payment timeliness, years to payment, histogram of payments by processing time, 7623(b) processing split; Figure 3 claim numbers by month and type; Table 2(A) ten most common allegations (a ranking without counts, not recorded); Table 2(B) TFA disclosures; Table 2(C) receipts by division; Table 2(D) receipts sent to field; Figure 4(A) issued/open/closed; hotline statistics; Figure 4(B) whistleblowers by region (already recorded); Figure 5 open 7623(b) claims by year of receipt (bars only, no printed values); Table 3 open claims by phase; Table 4 closures by reason. Added the missing rows of Tables 1-4, Figures 2(C), 2(D) and 3 (Figure 3 series by stacking order), TFA notices (proposed indicator notices_to_whistleblowers), hotline counts, restated rules and three events. All tables add up.

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About the document

What it covers FY2021 only: awards and collections split by 7623(a)/(b); payment timeliness and years from claim to payment; top allegations; Taxpayer First Act disclosures; receipts by division; referrals; claims issued/open/closed FY2019-2021; whistleblowers by region; closures by reason.

Notes Despite the Rev. 12-2021 label, the Director message mentions 9 May 2022, so it was published in 2022. Two printed pages per PDF page; locations are PDF pages. From this year Table 1 covers one year only, split by subsection.

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