Posted on 10/03/2019 7:23:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An IRS official filed a complaint alleging that he was told that at least one Treasury Department official tried to interfere with an audit of President Trump's or Vice President Pence's tax returns, according to The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the complaint.
The whistleblower spoke to the Post and confirmed that he had filed the complaint to Congress's tax-writing committees and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
“I steadfastly refuse to discuss the substance or details of the complaint, but I have some legitimate concerns about reckless statements being made about whistleblowers,” he told the Post.
The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee first mentioned in court documents in August that it had received credible allegations from a federal employee of potentially inappropriate attempts to influence the IRS's mandatory audit program for presidential and vice presidential tax returns.
The Post's story provides details that had not been in court documents, including that the complaint was made by a career IRS employee and that it alleges potential interference in the audit program by a political employee at the Treasury Department.
The Ways and Means Committee has filed a lawsuit in an effort to obtain six years of Trump's federal tax returns, and has said it wants these documents because it's conducting oversight and is interested in legislative proposals concerning how the IRS audits presidents. The IRS's internal policies require mandatory audits of the president and vice president's tax returns, but this policy isn't codified into law.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) told reporters last week that a decision on whether to publicly release the whistleblower complaint is "subject to what counsel advises."
Some progressive activists have called on Neal to publicly release more information about the tax-return whistleblower complaint.
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The article says that such an audit isn’t law but is just policy. It is not interfering for potus, amidst a congressional tax return witch hunt, to exert control over his own tax forms to keep them out if the hands of political irs employees of which there are many. It’s not possible to break a law that doesn’t exist. And potus can make or unmake any policy at any time. That’s his job.
No Trump will have 60 percent approval by the end of it.
I worried a little in the beginning. Worried a lot with mueller.
Now i’m THRILLED when they do this stuff.
Gives Trump a bounce every time.
Probably “obstructed” the auditors from going on their own witch hunts and made them do it properly...
Meanwhile, Lois Lerner gets lifetime pension and the best healthcare.
You would think that Trump gets audited nearly every year. If he had a tax problem, it would have come out a LONG time ago.
Especially The Clinton Foundation
MIGHT?
The reason that PDJT does not need to produce his info is because there is not LAW that says a sitting president must produce his tax info for audit by congress.
Another reason to get rid of this rogue agency and the parasites that work there.
and why shouldn't it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
People are realizing that the FERAL Government (all of them, dems and pubbys) is after PDJT.
Some of the orgs the people hate the most (IRS, FBI) are the ones that have been complicit in this coup and now with every cut, the blood is just another drop in the coup of a duly elected president.
CW is coming if they ever have success in unseating him.
Yup, that’s what I’ve read too. Supposedly every president for decades has voluntarily allowed the scrutiny but hey, criminals used to get arrested back in the day too.
The difference is that the Democrat/Liberal Leftist base will ALWAYS believe ANYTHING bad about Republicans. ALWAYS!
It will be against Pence. This way the democrats can do a twofer impeachment and move Nancey to the White House.
Another my sister’s friends uncle’s neighbor heard at the store that the checker saw ....
Just more made-up s^^t!
An IRS official filed a complaint alleging that he was told that at least one Treasury Department official tried to interfere with an audit of President Trump's or Vice President Pence's tax returns, according to The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the complaint.
IOW, the "whistleblower" (no doubt some IRS lifer who's never held any other job) was told by some other IRS lifer some made-uip BS about an audit -- not sure if it was Trump or Pence -- that would obviously either be routine, or be some kind of rogue operation. And, it turned up nothing, plus should obviously not have been carried out in the first place, since assets of both men are probably in blind trusts.
FERAL lol
They’re not gonna come close to succeeding
they are ####ed because the deep state gave marching orders and don’t care about them being elected, the Ds
at the same time, NO WAY all those Rs retired at the same time is coincidence
either RINOs forced out by our side or deep state kicked them out
i fear the latter
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