(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Judiciary Committee recently revealed that an agent from the Internal Revenue Service used a fake name to gain entry into an Ohio taxpayer’s home.
The committee announced the misconduct in a press release, which featured portions of a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to Daniel Werfel, commissioner of the IRS.
The letter opened by informing Werfel of the allegations, and further elaborated on the situation.
“When the taxpayer rightfully objected to the agent’s tactics, the IRS agent insisted that he ‘can . . . go into anyone’s house at any time’ as an IRS agent,” the letter read. “These allegations raise serious concerns about the IRS’s commitment to fundamental civil liberties.”
According to the report, the agent claimed his name was “Bill Haus” and asserted that he was at her home to discuss her estate filings. When welcomed into the home, the strange agent insisted the homeowner pay “a substantial amount” to the IRS on several delinquent tax return filings, despite receiving no previous warnings.
The police escorted the agent off the premises and instructed him to “not go into the taxpayer’s home again or he would be arrested.”
When the taxpayer reached out to the supervisor of “Agent Haus,” the supervisor confirmed that she did not owe any additional money and admitted that “things never should have gotten this far.”
In his letter, Jordan requested that Werfel send him “documents and communications referring or relating to the IRS’s field visit” to the Ohio woman, and any “communications between or among the IRS, Treasury Department, and any other Executive Branch entity referring or relating to the incident.”
He also asked to know the identity of the agent.
Recently, journalist Matt Taibbi also received an “unannounced and unprompted” visit from the IRS at his personal home. At the time, Taibbi was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in regards to the infamous “Twitter Files.”
