“IRS Chief Counsel Office Sought Information on 2010 Election Activity of Tea Party Applicants, House Leaders Say”
Bloomberg BNA breaking news report on this letter.
Category Archives: tax law and election law
“IRS Employees Showed No Politics, Lawmakers’ Memo Shows”
“Congress Recalls Watchdog to Explain IRS Audit”
AP:
The investigator who wrote a scathing report about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political groups is heading back to Capitol Hill as a key House Democrat says his committee’s investigation has found no evidence of political bias… Continue reading
“Democrats offer new evidence that IRS targeted progressive groups”
“A Not-So-Bright ‘Fix’ for the IRS | Commentary”
“CREW Executive Director Files IRS Whistleblower Complaint Against Campaign Finance Lawyer James Bopp”
Press release:
Today, Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), filed a whistleblower complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against James Bopp, Jr., the Bopp Law Firm, and the James Madison Center… Continue reading
“IRS Accidentally Exposed Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers”
Accounting Today: “Public.Resource.Org founder Carl Malamud said in a statement that his organization found the IRS had posted a database containing the filings of Section 527 political organizations such as campaign committees. “This Section 527 database is an essential… Continue reading
“IRS Scrutiny Went Beyond the Political”
“IRS ‘BOLOs’ raise new questions about political targeting uproar”
WaPo:
Internal Revenue Service documents showing that the agency might have scrutinized politically liberal groups before it inappropriately targeted conservative ones intensified debate on Capitol Hill last week, leaving the agency and its watchdog scrambling to explain themselves.
The… Continue reading
“GOP leadership PACs boost American Future Fund”
CPI:
Freshmen Sen. Kelly Ayotte found herself under serious political fire.
The New Hampshire Republican’s vote in April against enhancing firearm background checks prompted withering ads from a gun control group. Then another. And another.
But shortly thereafter, a… Continue reading
Congresswoman Lujan Grisham on her 501(c)(4) Reform Act
Writing at The Hill, in defense of treating c4s more like c3s.
“House committee says Lois Lerner waived Fifth Amendment right”
The headline of this WaPo piece really says it all.
More here, from The Hill.
TIGTA response to Rep. Levin about scope of IRS exempt organization audit
The webs are on fire this morning with news of the TIGTA response to this Levin letter. And (from an entirely unscientific sample) the vast majority of them have headlines along the lines of the one in The Hill:… Continue reading
Center for Competitive Politics on Werfel’s IRS report and the “Path 2” forward
Joe Trotter blogs here, with a letter to Werfel here, focusing largely on the “Path 2” suggestion for resolving the applications for tax-exemptions of organizations held up in screening as “potential political cases.”