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IRS Whistleblower Office Annual Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2023 (Publication 5241)

Internal Revenue Service · Government · 2024 · United States

Has everything in it been taken?

PartialReviewed 8 Oct 2026

Reviewed. Some of what it contains has knowingly not been taken yet.

What is left

(1) Figure 5 (PDF p. 21, chart image): the "Other Claim Processing Time" slice label reads 2.18 or 2.78 depending on text recognition (OCR) settings; a visual check is needed before recording it. (2) Figure 6 (PDF p. 22, chart image): histogram of FY2023 award payments by processing-time bucket and claim type; text recognition (OCR) read only six 7623(a) labels (3, 23, 12, 11, 15, 28 for <4, 4-6, 6-8, 8-10, 12-14, >14) and none of the 7623(b) labels; a visual read of all 14 bars is needed.

What the document holds

IRS Whistleblower Office FY2023 report to Congress (30 pp.): Director's message (121 awards, $88.8 million on $338 million; 26.3 percent; 1,234 claims related to awards; 6,455 submissions, 16,932 claims; 5,876 TFA disclosures; improvement plan; TIGTA report 8 Jun 2023; Summit Oct 2022; bribery investigation with two arrests; percentage changes not recorded); snapshot; background and rules (sequestration 5.7 percent, already recorded); flowchart; CARES Act; operations and improvement plan; staffing (49, out of scope); outreach (meeting with SEC/FinCEN/CFTC Apr 2023, ESOP release Aug 2023); legislative recommendations; Table 1 by subsection (17.4 and 97.5 percent 7623(b) shares; $440,000 on administrative closures; $88.6 million uncollected already recorded; the "$13-26 million" of forgone awards is a hypothetical, not recorded); Figure 3 ten-year awards (no value labels); Figure 4 years to payment (image, OCR); Figure 5 7623(b) time by process (image); Table 2 shortest/longest years for five processes; PARL timing (217 days); Figure 6 histogram (image); Figure 7 five-year claims/submissions (no value labels); Table 3 ten most common allegations (ranking only); Table 4 disclosures with timeliness; Figures 8-9 whistleblowers by US region and continent (already recorded); Table 5 open claims by phase; Table 6 closures with percentages. Added the missing rows of Tables 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, Figure 4 (OCR), Figure 5 (two of three slices), PARL timing, shares, restated rules and three events. Tables add up.

What it supports

137 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 FY2023: awards and collections by 7623(a)/(b); payment timeliness; submissions and claims built; top allegations; TFA disclosures; whistleblowers by US region and by continent; open claims by phase; closures by reason.

Notes Figure 4 (average years from claim to payment) has no numbers in the text layer; only the percentage changes (+0.4% for 7623(b), +5.9% for 7623(a)) are stated.

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