The inquiry was announced Thursday, a day after The New York Times reported that both Comey and McCabe had been subject to the extremely rare audits.
Comey was audited for his federal tax returns for 2017 and 2019, according to the Times. McCabe was audited for his 2019 federal tax return.
Trump, who appointed current Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig to his post, served as president from January 2017 through January 2021.
The Times noted that only about one out of 30,600 tax filers were audited for their 2017 returns. The IRS’s data book says that for all returns filed for the tax years 2011 through 2019, just 0.55% of individual returns were audited.
“The IRS has referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for review,” said IRS spokesperson Jodie Reynolds, whose agency is a division of the Treasury Department.
“IRS Commissioner Rettig personally reached out to TIGTA after receiving a press inquiry,” Reynolds said.
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