Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, has sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for violating his privacy rights after its agents disclosed private details about his taxes to the U.S. Congress and the public.
In the suit filed at the Federal District Court in Washington, Mr Biden’s legal team asserted that IRS investigators violated the agency’s rules by disclosing private information about its client to Congress, said The New York Times.
Mr Biden’s lawyers said he “has all the same responsibilities as any other American citizen, and the IRS can and should make certain that he abides by those responsibilities.”
“Yet the IRS and its agents have conducted themselves under a presumption that the rights that apply to every other American citizen do not apply to Mr Biden,” the president’s son’s lawyers added.
The IRS was also accused of targeting and seeking to embarrass Mr Biden by revealing his tax information via public statements to the media in which…