IRS credibility low now – corporations are unwilling to report their taxes because of whistleblower misconduct.

Let’s not forget the IRS. House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has been joined by Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in seeking testimony from IRS, Justice Department and Secret Service personnel over whistleblower allegations that Biden administration officials meddled in the tax probe of Hunter Biden. Not to be outdone, lawyers for President Joe Biden’s son have intensified their pushback. In case you missed it, one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell, late last week sent Smith a blistering 10-page rebuttal that questioned the credibility of the whistleblowers and the propriety of his investigation. “Releasing the transcripts of and exhibits from interviews of self-styled IRS ‘whistleblowers’ who may be claiming that title in an attempt to evade their own misconduct was an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father,” Lowell wrote. “It is no secret these interviews were orchestrated recitations of mischaracterized and incomplete ‘facts’ by disgruntled agents who believed they knew better than the federal prosecutors who had all the evidence as they conducted their five-year investigation of Mr. Biden,” Lowell added. Lowell didn’t provide any evidence to back up his suggestions about the whistleblowers’ motives. Smith hit back with a statement defending the whistleblowers and the conduct of his investigation. “It’s little surprise that Hunter Biden’s attorneys are attempting to chill our investigation and discredit the whistleblowers who say they have already faced retaliation from the IRS and the Department of Justice despite statutory protections established by law,” Smith said. “Worse, this letter misleads the public about the lawful actions taken by the Ways and Means Committee, which took the appropriate legal steps to share this information with rest of Congress,” he added. Smith and his colleagues could face other pushback — from within their own party. As Jordain wrote, “conservative efforts could backfire, instead exposing tension with centrist and more establishment Republicans who have bristled at their colleagues’ growing attacks on law enforcement — jabs that would have been unthinkable before Trump’s presidency. “The fault lines have already emerged during closed-door House GOP spending meetings in recent weeks, with some lawmakers warning colleagues to think twice about how they use spending bills to target specific agencies. In one session, conservative Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he privately urged his colleagues to ‘be careful’ about how they talk about Justice Department funding, adding: ‘I’m not in favor of cutting DOJ.’”-