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The IRS denied any wrongdoing after it said it had asked the Treasury Department's internal tax watchdog to look into reports that the former FBI Director and his deputy were both audited by the IRS.
The former FBI Director spoke to the media at the Rayburn House office building.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig personally reached out to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to request an investigation.
According to the New York Times, the IRS audited both of them through the National Research Program, a process only used on a few thousand randomly selected taxpayers per year.
When President Joe Biden took office last year, the IRS was still in charge of the agency, despite the fact that Trump's appointee, Charles Rettig, had been in charge for five years.
The Times notes that the likelihood of two former senior FBI leaders being selected for an auditing program only used by one in 30,000 taxpayers is very low.
Reynolds said it is ludicrous and untrue to suggest that senior IRS officials targeted specific individuals for National Research Program audits.
The IRS has never spoken with the White House about specific taxpayers and Rettig is not involved in individual audits.
The National Research Program audits are used by the IRS. As part of the program, the IRS spent over a year reviewing his tax documents, often drilling into minute details about his expenses, but the IRS eventually gave him and his wife a $347 tax refund. After their tax returns were audited, he and his wife had to pay the IRS a small amount for an oversight, but they weren't subject to any fines or penalties.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden told the Washington Post that Donald Trump has no respect for the rule of law so if he tried to subject his political enemies to additional IRS scrutiny that would surprise no one.
The FBI director was fired by Trump four years into a 10-year term. Trump doesn't like the person who led the FBI while it investigated Russian interference in the election, and he doesn't like the person who rejected Trump's demands for "loyalty." The interim head of the FBI, who was also hated by Trump for his ties to the Russia probe, was fired by the agency in the middle of last year. The Department of Justice retroactively made him eligible for retirement benefits after he sued after he was dismissed.
The New York Times reported that the two men who infuriated Trump faced intensive audits.
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