The IRS opened an examination of journalist Matt Taibbi’s 2018 tax return on Christmas Eve of last year — three weeks after he exposed sensitive documents about censorship at Twitter.
“These documents, however, raise more questions than they answer,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan noted in the letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.
Taibbi, a former Rolling Stone journalist who now writes for Substack, did not owe taxes and the IRS actually determined it owed him a refund and closed the case on March 23.Jordan on Wednesday demanded even more records from Werfel about the case as critics claimed the government was trying to intimidate its critics.
tax return on December 24, 2022. Not only was this date Christmas Eve and a Saturday, but it also happened to be three weeks after he published the first Twitter Files detailing government abuses and the same day that Mr. Taibbi published the ninth segment of the Twitter Files, detailing how federal government agencies ‘from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA’ coordinated to censor and coerce speech on various social media platforms.
When he did, an IRS agent reportedly told him that his returns for 2018 and 2021 had been rejected due to identity theft concerns.that it had been rejected as well on identity fraud grounds.
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