By Steven Nelson

Taibbi, a former Rolling Stone journalist who now writes for Substack, did not owe taxes and the IRS actually determined it owed him a refund and closed the case on March 23, Jordan wrote.

"The IRS asserted to the Committee that it sent a letter to Mr. Taibbi on October 24, 2019 — nine days after Mr. Taibbi filed his 2018 tax return — asking Mr. Taibbi to verify his return because it met identity theft criteria and could not be processed until he confirmed.

"The IRS alleged that it sent a second letter to Mr. Taibbi on March 23, 2020," Jordan wrote.

"However, according to Mr. Taibbi, neither he nor his accountant received either of these letters or any other notification that there was an issue with his 2018 tax return — that is, until the IRS conducted a field visit at Mr. Taibbi's home three years later.

"The IRS also failed to produce these purported letters to the
Committee."

Jordan went on: "The IRS's production shows that the IRS opened its examination of Mr. Taibbi's 2018
tax return on December 24, 2022. Not only was this date Christmas Eve and a Saturday, but it also happened to be three weeks after he published the first Twitter Files detailing government abuses and the same day that Mr. Taibbi published the ninth segment of the Twitter Files, detailing how federal government agencies 'from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA' coordinated to censor and coerce speech on various social media platforms."