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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Well shoot! Got me!
This is BS, the MSM told us that Trump lied and he isn’t under AUDIT!!!
FAKE NEWS!! or maybe it was FAKE NEWS BEFORE!!!
Why does anyone listen to the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never heard of this audit of the President thing. The President is having his own PERSONAL audit done, that is why they cannot get his tax returns. (No idea where I read that)
“And then there really was a wolf, but no one came”
So does the altered rule allowing 2nd hand information that NOW applies to the Intel, also apply to IRS?
Sorry, I had not read your post completely. Repeated info.
It could be true. But I’m sure it’s because they don’t want Trump’s taxes leaked to the dems.
And as leaky as these agencies are, they have to be watched. I don’t blame them. I call it ‘oversight’.
well ol spiro had more problems than irs but thats what nailed him
MIGHT HAVE
MIGHT HAVE, WTH DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??????
I think we are dealing with the F Team on corruption now.
We have dealt with A, B, C, D, E so now it is F...F, how fitting.
These asswipe Commierats were quiet when Obama’s relative got his tax group status changed retroactively to 501c3 without penalties.
FUIRS
When IRS agents broke the law we were told that they went rogue in attacking critics of Obama. No political bias or influence was at hand.
All this whistle blowing going on makes it sound like a drug fueled rave.
Well, their obvious plan is to reveal yet another “scandal”, as each previous one collapses, until the election. Old fashioned democrats, libertarians, and conservatives have had just about enough of these witch hunts, but liberal’s blind ambition to undo the 2016 election prevents them from seeing it.
Hearsay news report about a hearsay complaint. We don't know if either has any merit.
“Might Have”....
Get back to me when it is a ‘for sure’ and there is proof that Trump ordered the “Treasury Official’ to interfere.
Next one.... White House Whistle Blower leaks President Trump does not put toilet seat down when finished peeing! The White House Whistle Blower who has been working at the White House for 10 years said that the last President never needed to put the seat back down. He could not believe that this President did not follow the same policy.
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