unregistered foreign agent i believe was the charge. but this is another solicitation from hunter biden, and he refers to the bidens, plural, and they are best at doing what the chairman wants. i think that s very concerning to our committee because this is a chinese communist party owned entity. this is of concern to our national security, and i did not know, in closing, if you had any information with respect to that, there appeared with respect to those messages, it was something we needed to follow up on, and that was one of the major deviations, that investigators asked to follow to take some investigative steps to review vet, and it just was not supported. further delving into what that means, i simply cannot do. i can promise you we are not
look at a memo, and that was hunter biden s accountants. in your testimony, you included exhibit 4, a memo from the accountant, saying you are going to owe tax on this, so you ve got the accountants agreeing that this is income and that there should have been income tax paid on it. the correction to you that is that i did not provide the document. okay, excellent. we have his accountants agr agreeing. so, both of you, i think, indicate that the taxable amount of the $400,000, that hunter biden would have had to pay. is that correct? that s correct. and you had no evidence in all the records that those taxes were ever paid.
explain that the u.s. attorney for d.c. declined to partner with mr. weiss to bring the 2014 and 2015 charges. after the decision by the u.s. attorney, mr. weiss continue to discuss those charges with all of you. in fact, mr. ziegler, you describe how you had a meeting in which u.s. attorney weiss expressed some concerns about those charges, including that hunter biden was in the throes of his drug addiction after the death of his brother. and mr. weiss tells you, and i quote i m still weighing it. mr. weiss was telling you that he was the one weighing whether to bring the 2014 and 2015 charges. isn t that correct? that is correct. coming back to you this meeting, according to you, he said that he decided not to
not yet approved, provided discretion, or decline charges. so u.s. attorney weiss had no authority to charge any of those charges without the tax division s approval beforehand. and i would like to say something about this real quick. let me get back to you. i only have a limited amount of time. mr. ziegler, you say that hunter biden s unpaid taxes were around $2 million, and he is now made those back taxes, and he is been criminally charged for not paying taxes. will you just explain how people can be charged for not paying taxes even after they ve made amends and gone forward to pay them? under the statute, when someone fails to timely pay their taxes, usually due april 15th, once that date occurs, they have a known tax liability and have failed to pay
now, they were not. they were not paid by hunter biden. the statute of limitations was allowed to run. you go on to state that in order for him to pay this, that the government does not have a way to compel him to pay it. he got out of having to pay the tax, right? that s correct. so he has in his pocket $125,000 that should have gone to the government as federal taxes. about $62,000 per household. that s two for households that he got to pay. he could pay that today, right? voluntarily. if he chose to voluntarily, yes, he could. perhaps mr. president who is supposed to be in charge of taxes coming into our nation and