Tax-Exempt China Probe Hits Three Nonprofit Groups: BGOV Tax

Smith Floats Subpoena in Tax-Exempt Probe

Nonprofit groups under investigation by the House Ways and Means Committee face a mid-May deadline to turn over documents or face a subpoena, the panel’s chair wrote in a trio of letters.

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wrote leaders and representatives of nonprofits BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum seeking details about alleged ties to China. The groups, the committee said, are believed to be funded by Neville Roy Singham, a former US technology mogul living in Shanghai, and have links to the Chinese Communist Party.

Smith, in a statement announcing the letters, ...