IRS Under Investigation?
The GOP is turning up the heat.
Republican lawmakers have now turned up the heat on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and are demanding a full and proper explanation about their decision to destroy 30 million paper-filed tax documents last year.
According to Fox News, In a new letter which was sent to the IRS, Republican House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer along with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace raised questions against the IRS.
Comer and Mace told IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig that they were “troubled” by the IRS’s decision to take such a drastic step. They then explained that they were reviewing “allegations of potential misconduct” by the IRS for destroying these documents.
Initially the IRS explained that the decision to destroy the documents was “because the IRS’s continued inability to process backlogs of paper-filed tax returns contributed to management’s decision to destroy an estimated 30 million paper-filed information return documents in March 2021.”
Comer and Mace responded by saying, “Committee Republicans are concerned that the destruction of these documents might slowdown already inefficient processing procedures and hurt American taxpayers left unaware that the IRS destroyed documents already entrusted into its care,” they wrote, adding that “it appears that the IRS may now demand that taxpayers provide duplicate copies of information previously destroyed by the IRS.”
