IRS Names John Hinman as Whistleblower Office Director

The IRS named John Hinman as the new director of the agency’s whistleblower office, an IRS spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg Tax.

Hinman succeeds Lee Martin, who left the IRS last month to work as director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s whistleblower office. Hinman most recently worked as director of field operations for transfer pricing practice in the IRS’s Large Business & International Division.

He comes on the job as the agency seeks to speed up processing whistleblower cases that have piled into the thousands, according to the whistleblower division’s most recent annual report, for fiscal year ...