Kenneth William Kasper v. Commissioner

150 T.C. No. 2

UNITED STATES TAX COURT KENNETH WILLIAM KASPER, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No. 22242-11W. Filed January 9, 2018. R rejected P’s claim for a whistleblower award under I.R.C. section 7623(b), stating that the information P provided about corporate taxpayer T “did not meet our criteria for an award.” P argues his information was used by R to keep “held open” R’s bankruptcy claim against T, which eventually led to a settlement payment. The Court granted P’s motion to compel the discovery of information about R’s involvement in T’s bankruptcy…