17 Dec 2019 11:45 am
What happened to the IRS whistleblower?
The Senate has now joined the House in looking into this.
The Senate is poised to join the House in probing whistleblower alleging interference in Trump IRS audit.
In October an IRS whistlblower came forward.President Trump’s hand-picked IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, earns as much as $1 million in rental income from the Trump-branded properties he co-owns while facing demands from Congress to release Trump’s tax returns.
The IRS has already missed more than one deadline set by the House Ways and Means Committee to turn over Trump’s tax returns. (Rettig has stated that he will decide whether or not to release the tax returns, under the supervision of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.)
When Trump nominated Rettig to lead the IRS in February 2018, Rettig initially failed to disclose that the Hawaii real estate he owned was at a Trump-branded property.
He bought a 50 percent interest in two units at Trump International Waikiki in 2006 ahead of the building’s completion in 2009.
It is likely that Trump profited off of his future-IRS commissioner’s purchase; although the Trump Organization does not own the Waikiki property, its branding deal gave it a 10 percent share of total pre-sales.
Records indicate Rettig is definitely making money from this purchase: on his financial disclosure, he reported an income between $100,000 and $1 million in rent and/or royalties from the units.
The two one-bedroom condos are valued around $1.2 million each, according to Hawaii property records. President Trump also made a promotional appearance at the property in 2017 ahead of a diplomatic trip.
Rettig’s financial interest at Trump-branded property raises serious ethics questions as the president continues to fight to keep his tax returns secret.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/irs-c ... -property/
Hmmm. A political appointee.The person who filed a second whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump is an IRS employee, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The complaint alleges "inappropriate efforts to influence" the agency's audit of Trump's tax returns, according to a court filing from the House Ways and Means Committee.
According to The Post, the person accused of trying to interfere with the audit is a political appointee at the Treasury Department.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-w ... ee-2019-10
The Senate has now joined the House in looking into this.
The Senate is poised to join the House in probing whistleblower alleging interference in Trump IRS audit.