IRS Whistleblower Details How Much Hunter Biden Allegedly Owed in Taxes Resulting in Recommended Charges

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Wilmington, Del., on July 26, 2023. Mark Makela/Getty Images

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, owed exactly $6,544,362 in unreported total taxable income or total tax not timely paid between 2015 and 2019, according to an IRS whistleblower document.

That document was just one of many released on Sept. 27 by the Ways and Means Committee showing Hunter Biden failing to pay millions in taxes that resulted in recommended criminal charges, including tax evasion and filing false returns.

Hunter Biden failed to report $335,265 in taxes in 2014 and $267,269 in 2018, according to an IRS document handed over, as one of dozens of documents, to the committee by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler. And, Hunter Biden owed $124,845 in additional taxes in 2014 and $106,945 in such taxes in 2018.

Between 2015 and 2019, Hunter Biden failed to report almost $5 million in personal and corporate taxes, according to another document Mr. Ziegler provided to the committee. Simultaneously, Hunter Biden paid more than $1.56 million in taxes in an untimely manner.

Mr. Ziegler recommended both misdemeanor and felony tax charges for the president’s son, who was charged earlier this year with misdemeanor tax-related charges as part of a plea deal that a judge threw out. However, Hunter Biden could still face tax-related charges, said U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss when he announced on Sept. 14 gun charges against the president’s son.

Hunter Biden’s tax problem is but a fraction of the documents released by the committee alleging a bigger scheme: the younger Biden selling the influence of his family, especially his father, in order for the family to profit—including from foreign entities such as China. The committee voted along party lines on Sept. 27 to release the documents.

“These documents show a clearer connection between Joe Biden, his public office, and Hunter Biden’s global influence-peddling scheme that resulted in over $20 million in payments to the Biden family,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), in a statement.

“In addition to then Vice President Joe Biden attending lunches and speaking on the phone with his son’s business associates, the details released today paint a fuller picture of how Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office was instrumental to the Biden family’s business schemes,” he said.

“This evidence makes clear Hunter Biden’s business was selling the Biden ‘brand,’ and that access to the White House was his family’s most valuable asset—despite official claims otherwise.”

The committee said in a press release that “both President Biden’s brother and Hunter Biden’s tax accountant stated in interviews with federal investigators that parts of Hunter Biden’s 2018 tax returns were dishonest, adding more evidence that his status as son of the President of the United States played a role in his sweetheart plea deal.”