Webinar: Understanding How the IRS Rewards Whistleblowers
WS1123 | Course | Overview | Scheduled
Description
In 2006, Congress passed the Tax Relief and Health Care Act. Prior to the Act's passage, rewards to individuals who provided information to the IRS re
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 2.00 | Taxes |
Designed For
Accounting and Finance Professionals who need to understand various whistleblower programs under federal law
Prerequisites
Experience with individual and business clients
Highlights
- Overview of the law that authorizes the IRS to reward whistleblowers who submit information leading to recovery
- Review of the whistleblower claim process
- Criteria for eligible claims
- Case studies of significant claim recoveries paid by the IRS to whistleblowers
- Issues underlying whether a practitioner should ever act as the whistleblower
- Addressing delays inherent in the whistleblower claim process
- The structure and role of the Whistleblower Office
- Best practices for the submission of a good whistleblower claim
- Working with other governmental divisions in processing whistleblower claims
- A brief overview of other, non-IRS whistleblower claims
Objectives
- Understand how to submit a good whistleblower claim that satisfies IRS criteria
- Understand the process by which the IRS reviews and pursues whistleblower claims
- Learn about large recoveries by IRS whistleblowers
- Understand non-IRS whistleblower claim programs including claims arising under the False Claims Act, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank
Preparation
None
Notes
This webinar is provided by Surgent. After registering for the course, you will receive an email from Surgent with instructions for logging in to the webinar and obtaining your eMaterials.
You may confirm that your computer meets the minimum requirements by visiting: https://www.surgentcpe.com/webinartest/.
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $99.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $99.00
- Member
- $99.00
- Non-Member
- $99.00