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An IRS insider leaked it, obviously. Super illegal and against the IRS culture, but now it's out there. What's puzzling is how apparently selective the leaked
by gwern 5y ago
An IRS insider leaked it, obviously. Super illegal and against the IRS culture, but now it's out there.
What's puzzling is how apparently selective the leaked material all is. ProPublica has all these very specific memos and tax return info about Thiel's Roth IRA, and yet, they are only aware of Thiel's long IRS mega-audit (and that he won 100%), and don't know that it was in fact all about auditing his use of the Roth IRA trick? (Or that Fortune reported about the Paypal mafia's use of the Roth IRA back in like 2009?) Very odd.
- astrange 5y agoWhy do they have info about his Roth IRA anyway? That wouldn't be part of a tax record. Maybe it's from the audit? (Similar issues came up when people wanted to see Trump's tax returns to find out "if he was really wealthy". They wouldn't show that. Of course they might show a lot of other things.)
- NonEUCitizen 5y agoPart of the article mentioned the IRA was disclosed in his application for New Zealand residency. So does NZ publish residency applications? Or was that also leaked?
- sgpl 5y agoNot commenting on the morality of the leak but given the IRS has been gutted [0] over the years by those in power, perhaps this insider was sick of seeing the public narrative on taxes be completely different from what was happening privately. [0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted