The IRS Whistleblower Office’s 2023 Annual Report was released on June 24, 2024, highlighting the results over the program over the last federal fiscal year. The report covers from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023, and includes an analysis of claims received, processed, and the awards paid to whistleblowers.  

In fiscal year 2023, the IRS paid $88.8 million to whistleblowers on a collection of $338 million from their tips and reports. The percentage of recoveries awarded to whistleblower was 26.3%, a large increase from the 21.9 and 14.7 percent awarded in 2022 and 2021 respectively. 

On January 9th, 2023, Denver passed the Civil Wage Theft Ordinance.  The law has been in effect for over one year, and the city and county of Denver recently released a summary of the results so far. The law makes gives Denver one of the strongest in the U.S., similar in structure to the Private Attorney General Act in California for wage theft.