Why can't the IRS expedite Donald Trump's audit?

Income tax audits can be long, drawn out affairs for the more complicated tax returns that can take months, sometimes years to resolve. Lots of different records to go through, piles of paper to review and issues to negotiate over what is determined to be fair for the issues about income and expenses that aren't so clear cut. read more

Donald Trump has broken with a 40-year-old tradition of U.S. presidential candidates making public their tax returns because he claims to be under audit by the IRS—but he has yet to produce definitive proof that he is really being investigated. read more

A tax attorney would also likely advise a client against publicly admitting that an audit was underway or implying that the IRS’s decision to audit him was an act of religious persecution, but that doesn’t stop Trump. read more