Contained blacked-out pictures of letters Comey and McCabe received informing them that their tax returns had been chosen “at random for a compliance research investigation.”
Comey received notice of his audit for the 2017 tax year in 2019, while McCabe received notice of his audit in 2021.
Because they demand thorough documentation of each line of income, business expenses, deductions, and credits, National Research Program audits are known among tax specialists as “audits from Hell.”
Governance & Law
The IRS chief requests that the Treasury watchdog investigate audits of former FBI officers.
According to the IRS, two former FBI agents who were attacked by the late President Donald Trump were chosen for thorough tax audits after Commissioner Charles Rettig ordered the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to look into the matter.
The news came after the New York Times reported that former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe and former FBI director James Comey had been chosen for audits of their 2017 taxes and their 2019 taxes, respectively.
Comey was fired in 2017 by Trump and was the former director of the FBI. Trump has criticized both men for their roles in the FBI’s 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign’s purported ties to Russia.
In contrast to Comey, who was fired in 2017, McCabe was ousted in 2018, and he later released a memoir criticizing Trump’s “relentless attacks” on the agency.
Rettig reported the case to Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration “after receiving a press enquiry,” the IRS stated in an email. Rettig was appointed by Trump in 2018 and kept on by President Joe Biden.
HTML featured redacted pictures of letters Comey and McCabe received informing them that their tax returns were chosen “at random for a compliance research study.” Comey received notice of his audit for the 2017 tax year in 2019, while McCabe received notice of his audit in 2021.
Trump fired Comey, the former director of the FBI, in 2017. Trump has chastised both men for their roles in the FBI’s 2016 probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia.
Unlike Comey, who was fired in 2017, McCabe was fired in 2018, and he later published a memoir in which he criticised Trump’s “relentless attacks” on the FBI.
Comey was notified of his audit for the 2017 tax year in 2019, while McCabe was notified in 2021.
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Because they demand thorough documentation of each line of income, business expenses, deductions, and credits, National Research Program audits are known among tax specialists as “audits from Hell.”
Out of over 150 million individual returns, just a tiny number of thousands of self-employed and small business taxpayers are chosen annually to gather compliance data.
According to the IRS, “Audits are handled by career civil servants, and the IRS has significant safeguards in place to protect the examination process and against politically-driven audits.”
“It’s absurd and false to claim that senior IRS officers in some way singled out certain people for National Research Program audits.”
