Phillips & Cohen attorney Erika A. Kelton argues in today's International Herald Tribune that other countries would be wise to follow the example of the U.S. and offer whistleblowers a reward for information that results in the recovery of tax revenues.
"Other governments elsewhere are beginning to recognize the value of paying an insider for information about tax evasion," she says. She noted that Germany and Great Britain both paid a former employee of a Liechtenstein bank for information about their citizens who held secret accounts at the bank to avoid taxes.
"Such payments make sound business sense when considering that already more than €110 million has been recovered as a result of this inside information," said Kelton, who represents whistleblowers with information about federal tax violations under the new IRS whistleblower program.
