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Experts warn Trump immunity from IRS audit could undermine trust in tax system

Details of IRS audits are not public and the merits of each side's arguments are impossible to tell. But the way the president's case against his own government's IRS was resolved is highly unusual, experts say.

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According to PBS News’s source item, Experts warn Trump immunity from IRS audit could undermine trust in tax system, Details of IRS audits are not public and the merits of each side’s arguments are impossible to tell. But the way the president’s case against his own government’s IRS was resolved is highly unusual, experts say.

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