Republicans Probing IRS Handling of Easement Backdating Case (1)

Republican lawmakers are pressing the IRS for an update on the fallout on a recent US Tax Court conservation easement case in which the agency admitted it backdated a penalty form document and misled the court about it.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and Oversight subcommittee Chair David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) asked IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel in a letter Tuesday to update Congress on the IRS’s investigation into the “root causes” of the case and share how many more cases involved backdating.

“These instances of IRS employees backdating official tax documents lead to great concern about” ...