U.K. Launches U.S.-Style Whistleblower Reward Program to Combat Tax Fraud and the SFO May Be Next

Representing whistleblowers does not garner the same respect in London as it does in the United States, but the tide is turning, according to Mary Inman, a founding partner of Whistleblowers Partners LLP. In this guest article, Inman discusses the expansion of a whistleblower incentives program to identify tax fraud in the U.K. and movement toward a similar program at the SFO. See our two-part series on the DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program: “A Look at Forfeiture and Culpability” (Aug. 14, 2024), and “Exclusions, NDAs and Goals” (Sep. 11, 2024).

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