IRS Counsel Nominee Briefly Advised Trump Organization on Taxes
- Michael Desmond worked for Trump’s outside tax law firm
- He faces hearing Thursday on nomination for top IRS lawyer job
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President Donald Trump’s nominee for chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service briefly advised the future president’s real estate company on a tax question several years ago.
Michael Desmond counseled the Trump Organization on “a discrete reporting matter for a subsidiary company that was resolved with no tax impact,” James Wilkinson, a spokesman for Desmond, said in a written statement to Bloomberg News. Wilkinson said Desmond didn’t interact with anyone at the Trump Organization, which was a longtime client of two other partners at his law firm.