Estate of Joseph A. Insinga v. Cmsnr. IRS

  1. August 08, 2025

    DC Circ. Hands Banker's Estate Win In IRS Whistleblower Bid

    A split D.C. Circuit sided with the estate of a former banker at Rabobank in ruling Friday that the Internal Revenue Service used the wrong legal standard to deny him an award for contributing to investigations into two companies' tax avoidance scheme.

  2. December 18, 2024

    Dutch Bank Exec Gave IRS Good Tax Tip, DC Circ. Judge Says

    D.C. Circuit judges grappled Wednesday with the denial of a whistleblower award to a late Dutch bank executive who tipped off the IRS to tax reporting schemes, with one judge saying during oral arguments that the executive appeared to have handed the agency "gift-wrapped" evidence of wrongdoing.

  3. October 01, 2024

    Estate Exaggerating Value Of Exec's Tax Tipoff, DC Circ. Told

    A Dutch bank executive's estate is "vastly" overstating the significance of his tips to the IRS in seeking a whistleblower award for his reporting of tax schemes, the U.S. government told the D.C. Circuit, urging it to uphold the U.S. Tax Court's denial of the award.

  4. July 18, 2024

    Bank Exec's Tax Tip Case Wrongly Axed, Estate Tells DC Circ.

    The estate of a Dutch bank executive asked the D.C. Circuit to overturn a U.S. Tax Court decision denying him a whistleblower award for reporting on tax avoidance schemes, saying the lower court improperly relied on proposed regulations from the Internal Revenue Service.