{"id":14767,"date":"2015-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/whistleblower-receives-reward-from-the-irs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:10:03","slug":"whistleblower-receives-reward-from-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/whistleblower-receives-reward-from-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Receives Reward from the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/ubs-whistleblower-birkenfeld-arrest\/2015\/11\/08\/id\/701199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doing the right thing<\/a> can turn out to be the wrong thing. Bradley Birkenfield, jailed by the IRS after whistleblowing on how Swiss Banks were hiding money to avoid paying taxes to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s big news and you think it would be a timely revelation to the DOJ and the IRS. Not in this case! He was a whistleblower in 2007. <span class=\"pullquote\">He informed the host on \u201cFull Measure\u201d how the DOJ seemed to be unhappy with his whistleblowing revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UBS exerts power in the world and the Unites States by those it\u2019s able to influence. Also, you can imagine the rich and powerful whose identities would have been revealed. This is simply a fact and to deny it means a person is moving through the concourse of life with blinders on.<\/p>\n<p>Money is power! And it\u2019s only logical that those with power are going to do everything they can to protect their assets and position. Not everyone has the power or legal assets to protect their money in such a way. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand the rules and regulations that are in place. Quite often, hiring an IRS attorney or consultant is a necessary to step to ensure that you\u2019re compliant.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works. Sometimes, doing the right thing can turn out to be the wrong thing. Bradley Birkenfield, jailed by the IRS after whistleblowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22701,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/22701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}