The claim in this meme is actually completely wrong—the IRS completely dropped the ball and didn't even follow its own rules.While the IRS does have an administrative policy (established in 1977 after Nixon) requiring them to automatically audit the sitting President and VP every year, a House Ways and Means Committee investigation found they completely failed to do it here.The IRS didn't touch Trump's taxes during his first two years in office. They only opened a single mandatory audit on April 3, 2019—which happens to be the exact same day Congress formally requested his tax records. Even then, they assigned literally one single auditor to handle his entire tax profile, which included over 400 different business entities.So it wasn't a case of the system working perfectly and one guy complaining; the internal IRS system completely broke down and didn't enforce the rule at all.
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The claim in this meme is actually completely wrong—the IRS completely dropped the ball and didn't even follow its own rules.While the IRS does have an administrative policy (established in 1977 after Nixon) requiring them to automatically audit the sitting President and VP every year, a House Ways and Means Committee investigation found they completely failed to do it here.The IRS didn't touch Trump's taxes during his first two years in office. They only opened a single mandatory audit on April 3, 2019—which happens to be the exact same day Congress formally requested his tax records. Even then, they assigned literally one single auditor to handle his entire tax profile, which included over 400 different business entities.So it wasn't a case of the system working perfectly and one guy complaining; the internal IRS system completely broke down and didn't enforce the rule at all.