It’s tax season for Hillary Clinton, again.
At least five charities with connections to Clinton will refile annual tax returns after a review found errors in how donations from foreign governments were disclosed.
Reuters first reported the errors on form 990s that include over or under reporting by millions of dollars from amounts donated by foreign governments. The foundations also failed in many cases to disclose the donations as separate from total revenue.
Though the poor reporting does not necessarily represent wrongdoing, it does undermine the role 990s play in keeping charities accountable.
For example, in 2010 and the following three years in a row, the Clinton Foundation reported receiving zero in funds from foreign and U.S. governments, despite receiving tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments in years prior.
According to the foundation now, those entries were errors — in fact, several foreign governments gave tens of millions of dollars. Now, they are on the foundation’s annually updated donor list as well as a cumulative amounts of how much they have given since they began donating.
“We are prioritizing an external review to ensure the accuracy of the 990s from 2010, 2011 and 2012 and expect to refile when the review is completed,” Craig Minassian, a foundation spokesman, said in an email to Reuters.
Other foundations such as the Clinton Health Access Initiative are being audited as well.
In the recent weeks, Clinton — who recently launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential ticket — has seen her charities face intense scrutiny. Expect the scrutiny to only pick up from here.
