It doesn’t booty the Panama Papers to betrayal tax cheats — affluence of bos address ambiguous tax behavior to the IRS every year. Here’s what you charge to apperceive if you appetite to address a accessible tax cheat and conceivably get a reward.
File the appropriate form. The IRS accustomed added than 87,000 letters of declared misdeeds during the 2015 budgetary year, according to the Government Accountability Office.
You can book IRS Anatomy 3949-A to address the declared bilker and airing away. But if you appetite a reward, book Anatomy 211 instead, says Bob Gardner, a adviser and above administrator in the IRS bigmouth office.
Whistleblowers can get 15% to 30% of the bulk calm if the case involves added than $2 actor in taxes, penalties, absorption and added amounts. (If the doubtable bilker is an individual, he or she charge additionally accomplish added than $200,000 a year.) Below those thresholds, the accolade is discretionary. In 2015, the rewards totaled added than $103 actor for 99 whistleblowers.