The IRS is remaining mum on whether it’s probing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, Priscilla Chan, and several left-wing nonprofits, who may have violated tax laws by intentionally dumping financial resources into the 2020 election to benefit then-candidate Joe Biden.
Last year, the Center for Renewing America (CRA) filed a complaint with the federal agency alleging that the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), the Center for Election Innovation and Research, and the National Vote at Home Institute engaged in a “partisan electioneering” scheme, spearheaded by Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe, by pouring nearly half a billion dollars into the 2020 election to swing the contest to Biden.
In the lead-up to that election, Zuckerberg and Chan donated $400 million to groups like CTCL under the guise of assisting local election officials administer elections during the Covid pandemic. In actuality, less than 1 percent of CTCL’s 2020 funds were spent on resources such as personal protective equipment. Analysis from election data experts later determined that the funds were “distributed on a highly partisan basis that favored Democrats.”
These “Zuckbucks” were also used to advance unsecured Democrat-backed voting policies, such as mass unsupervised mail-in voting and the use of ballot drop boxes. Their slanted distribution towards Democrat municipalities, especially in swing states, effectively funded a giant Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.
In its September 2022 complaint, CRA demanded the IRS investigate the entities “for unlawful political activity and the receipt and use of improper personal income tax deductions for donations to one
