Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pledged to House Ways and Means Committee Republicans she would ensure IRS employees are aware of “all of the options” for reporting wrongdoing.
But some say making agency employees comfortable reporting misdeeds isn’t as simple as sending a link as House Republicans are hoping to accomplish with a new whistleblower portal.
The GOP-led panel, which seeks to conduct aggressive oversight of the IRS, announced the portal in late January giving agency employees a new resource to report misconduct or other wrongdoing.
Even though whistleblower law protects federal employees from retribution for reporting wrongdoing within their agency, ...
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