California lawmakers are reviving an effort to expand the state’s False Claims Act to allow whistleblowers to report alleged tax fraud, five years after their most recent attempt to revise the statute.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Sen. Ben Allen (D) introduced a bill (S.B. 799) similar to bills that stalled in 2020 and 2019 to extend the state’s whistleblower law to tax matters, saying enforcement authorities need additional tools to fight tax fraud. It’s scheduled for its first hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 8.
The bill offers a way to raise ...
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