I wonder if the IRS audited Orson Bean...
Don't know that for a fact, but it wouldn't be all that surprising.
Democrats have been siccing the IRS upon political opponents going as far back to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration. Roosevelt succeeded in getting Moses Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, thrown into prison on purported IRS violations. There was widespread speculation that the motivation behind the prosecution of Annenberg was the paper's consistent criticism of Roosevelt's New Deal policies.