Both former FBI officials were chosen for extremely rare tax examinations, the New York Times reported.
The IRS said Thursday that it has asked one of its watchdogs to investigate how two former senior FBI officials frequently criticized by former President Donald Trump were chosen for intense audits.
The agency said in a statement that Commissioner Chuck Rettig had personally contacted Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration on the matter.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that former FBI director James Comey and his one-time deputy, Andrew McCabe, both received National Research Program audits in recent years. As few as several thousand tax returns a year are chosen for those audits, out of tens of millions of those filed to the IRS.
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The IRS has asked one of its watchdogs to investigate how former top FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe were chosen for extremely rare tax audits https://t.co/31Cw7DbgXZ
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