IRS investigating leak of tax returns from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and other billionaires

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Some of the world's wealthiest people have paid relatively little in federal taxes, according to the investigative news outlet ProPublica, which obtained...

Hours after an investigative news outlet said it obtained years of tax returns showing that billionaires including Amazon AMZN, +2.28% founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla TSLA, -0.40% co-founder Elon Musk did not owe income taxes, the Internal Revenue Service’s head said there’s a probe underway to see how the tax returns got out in the first place.

“We are aware of Commissioner Rettig’s statement this morning. As we said, we do not know the identity of our source,” Richard Tofel, ProPublica’s president, said in a statement. It’s illegal under federal law for people, including federal and state government workers, to “willfully” provide an unauthorized disclosure of information, including tax returns.

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