Republican state lawmakers reported Omar to the IRS in 2019

Ten Minnesota Republican state lawmakers reported Representative Ilhan Omar to the IRS in August 2019, asking it to review her tax filings after a state campaign finance board raised questions about joint returns. The request followed findings that Omar had filed joint returns in 2014 and 2015 with Ahmed Hirsi while legally married to another man; the article does not establish whether the IRS investigated.

The tax returns surfaced during a board inquiry into campaign spending, including a $1,500 payment for accounting services to obtain and review the returns. The board said Omar’s campaign had not shown that the expense benefited the campaign and ordered her to repay it, while rejecting a separate allegation that the payment covered her divorce proceedings. A lawyer for Omar said the tax issue needed correcting regardless of her candidacy, and one lawmaker said the IRS never responded to the request.