Tax Cheat Whistleblower Who Got Millions from IRS Will Owe Millions … to the IRS
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Bradley Birkenfeld just got some good news and some bad news.
The good news was that he got a $104 million payment from the IRS for his role in catching tax evaders using Swiss banks to hide money. Under the IRS whistleblower program, which was designed to give private individuals incentives to catch major tax cheats, the whistleblower gets a cut of whatever the IRS recovers in unpaid taxes. In Birkenfeld’s case, his work in helping the government collect a $780 million fine entitled him to…
Tax Cheat Whistleblower Who Got Millions from IRS Will Owe Millions … to the IRS originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-09-12T16:56:00Z.
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