Ashley Biden is facing an IRS complaint after she failed to disclose donations to her charity from wealthy benefactors, including Meghan Markle.
Women’s Wellness Spa(ce), Biden's nonprofit, underreported its income by six figures, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Ashley Biden, a social worker who wrote about childhood trauma in an infamous diary, started the nonprofit to help women with mental health struggles.
The conservative National Legal and Policy Center flagged a $500,000 discrepancy in the group's IRS filings.
Despite reporting an income of $170,296 in 2023, Biden's charity received $250,000 grants from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Archewell Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Biden's non-profit began in 2023, while her father was still president, which has raised concerns to some about influence peddling.
"Ashley Biden’s failure to disclose to the IRS receiving $500,000 in grants in 2023 raises the question of what other contributions is she hiding," Paul Kamenar, a lawyer with the National Legal and Policy Center told the Washington Free Beacon.
An accountant for the charity told the Free Beacon that the most of the $500,000 was not distributed until 2024. But according to Kamenar, Biden's group is required to report donations when they are pledged, not when they are actually received.
Ashley Biden settled a $5,000 tax bill last year that dated to 2015. She is not the only member of her family with tax woes: her half-brother, Hunter, was facing prison after he pled guilty to evading taxes on over $1.4 million that he received from his international business deals.
President Biden wiped the slate clean with a controversial blanket pardon.
Ashley, the only child of Biden and his second wife Jill, was one of the only family members who did not receive a pardon from President Biden before he stepped down, the Free Beacon noted.
While Ashley Biden has received comparatively little publicity compared to Hunter Biden, the infamous theft of her diary led to scrutiny of her unusual family life. In the book, Biden wrote about "showers with dad" and being "sexualized" at a young age.
Ashley Biden's non-profit bills itself as a "trauma-informed wellness center," but the group's online presence is marginal outside of an Instagram account that has not posted anything since February.
The charity claims to offer guided meditation and psychotherapeutic treatments like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which Ashley Biden used after her half-brother Beau died from brain cancer.
