Trump CMS Pick Oz Paid No Medicare Taxes in 2023, Memo Says (1)

Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have “significantly” underpaid Social Security and Medicare taxes in recent years, according to a memo by Democratic staff on the Senate Finance Committee seen by Bloomberg News.

Oz paid no Social Security or Medicare taxes in 2023 and “negligible” amounts in 2022, the memo said. Oz told Congressional staffers he wasn’t liable for the taxes on certain income from his company, which is run as a limited liability company, because of a provision called the “limited partner exception,” according to the memo. ...