The IRS issued its annual end-of-year whistleblower reports for Fiscal Year 2019, showing enforcement activity, whistleblower awards, administrative priorities and issues, and other information.

The report shows that in FY 2019 the IRS granted 181 awards totaling $120,305,278. This reward represents 19.5% of total amounts collected by the IRS as a result of whistleblowers exposing tax violations and fraud.

Under the main provision of the IRS whistleblower program, whistleblowers that report large-scale tax violations to the IRS may qualify for a reward of up to 30 percent of the amounts recovered by the IRS as a result of the whistleblower’s report. To qualify for this award, the information must be related a tax violation in excess of $2 million, and, if related to an individual taxpayer, related to a person whose gross income exceeds $200,000 for at least one of the tax years in question.

Click here to read the Fiscal Year 2019 IRS Whistleblower Program’s Annual Report to Congress