Twitter Files journalist rips IRS over home visit after agency finds it owes him money
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Progressive journalist and Twitter Files figure Matt Taibbi responded Wednesday to the case of the Internal Revenue Service launching an investigation into him.
In an interview Wednsday on "America Reports, Taibbi confirmed the timeline referenced in a recent letter from Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, wherein the agency opened an examination into the journalist's 2018 tax return on Christmas Eve 2022, which notably fell on a Saturday. Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Werfel, nominated by President Biden and who took office in March 2023, replaced Trump-era Commissioner Charles Rettig. However, former IRS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement Doug O'Donnell had been named "acting commissioner" by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen weeks before the launch of the Taibbi probe He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Charles covers media, politics and breaking news, and has covered the annual CPAC conference for Fox News Digital.
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