OAR 150-314-0540: Rewards for Information

The Department, under the secrecy clause, ORS 314.835, cannot reveal to an informer whether or not the information offered is useful to the Department, and the Department can make no payment of an award until the additional tax recovered by virtue of the information has actually been paid and received. Informers must be advised in advance that they must rely on the Department for fair treatment and have no recourse, and that payments of rewards may be long delayed while issues involved in determination of tax liability are finally resolved.