Whistleblower awarded $38 million from IRS for revealing tax evading company

The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has awarded $38 million to a whistleblower informant for revealing tax fraud by a large corporation according to his lawyers. According to counsel the IRS could have collected up to $250 million based on the law under which the claim was brought. Last month another whistleblower of tax fraud was awarded over $104 million for his part in revealing tax havens in Switzerland and the names of hundreds of individuals not paying their share of U.S. taxes.