Has anybody been audited? How long do they take?

[Funtatlaguy]

Are Trumps so complex that they really can take more than two years?
Is there a way the new Dem House can find out if he was lying about the audits once they get his tax returns.?

[manor321]

1. The Democrats will be performing their own audit :)

[RockRaven]

2. Absolutely House Dem majority can find out the truth about his taxes. But lemme save you a minute --

TRUMP. WAS. LYING.

Always. He always lies. Always. Even when it is obvious. Even when it is counterproductive. He just lies. Always.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Oh we know that.just wondering if there will be proof from the IRS.

[FSogol]

3. Of course he is lying. That's what Trumpy does. N/t

[at140]

5. I have prepared my own tax returns since 1961, and only 1 time

I got letter from IRS telling me there were errors in my return. That was before the era of computers, and I made a simple subtraction error and the IRS sent me a check because the error was actually against me.

Now with the computer software, it is very difficult to make mistakes and face an audit.

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. I've been audited several times. I've even had two going at once.

My job involves the government writing me personally dozens of cheques totalling well into six figures, but they're all deposited directly into my employer's account and I never see anything except my actual salary. It's pretty much the way the field works, and yes, it's all the fault of lawyers.

I tell the IRS what's going on when I file the return, the IRS audits me anyway, I give them a letter from my employer, and the whole thing is usually taken care of in a couple of weeks.

Admittedly, this is almost certainly simpler than the chaotic mess Trump has, but I've always found the IRS to be fairly easy to deal with in that they have a problem they want an answer for, and if you just tell them what the heck is going on instead of giving them the runaround, you are back to the fact that a bureaucrat really just wants to close the damn file and get it off their desk.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. So they take weeks, not years. Why don't media challenge him on this lie?

[Pope George Ringo II]

8. His might take longer than mine, I admit.

Mine really have all been pretty straightforward, and I don't have nearly the money-laundering shell game he does. Maybe months would actually be reasonable given a sufficiently complex revenue stream and tax return.

But I do come back to the fact that you get audited because they don't understand something. Answer their damn questions, give them a reason to move on, and ISTM the audit should end at some point well shy of the farce he's been perpetuating.

[AJT]

9. Even if they are under audit they can still be released.

[Niagara]

10. Warren Buffett released his tax returns

in 2016 while under an audit to prove a point that Trump is again a liar.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Doubtful he is being audited. Never produced copy of audit notice from IRS.