Category Archives: tax law and election law
” I.R.S. Ignored Complaints on Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups”
NYT:
Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded by the Republican political operative Karl Rove and former… Continue reading
“IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups”
WaPo: “Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed,… Continue reading
“Senate Democrats demanded stricter IRS standards for tax-exempt groups”
“Scandal Could Change How IRS Regulates Political Groups”
“There Is No Good Fix for the IRS Tea Party Problem”
Josh Barro for Bloomberg View.
“IRS Scandal Could Blunt Potency Of Campaign Finance Reform”
“For Tax-Exempt Groups, How Much Politics Is Too Much?”
Peter Overby reports for NPR.
Nate Silver: IRS Story Could Have Political Legs in 2014
I agree with this.
“IRS: Top official first told of targeting in 2012”
AP: “The Internal Revenue Service says acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller was first informed in May 2012 that tea party groups were inappropriately targeted for scrutiny. A month later he wrote a member of Congress to explain the… Continue reading
“Levin-McCain statement on IRS investigation”
“The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has been for several months examining on a bipartisan basis whether the IRS has adequately enforced rules regarding the extent to which tax exempt nonprofit 501(c)4 groups engage in partisan politics. We had tentatively planned… Continue reading
ABC News Posts Some of the Leaked TIGTA Report on IRS Tea Party Mess
Here.
Democracy 21 Statement Calls IRS “Dead Wrong” to Target Conservative Groups, But….
notice the almost exclusive focus on the other wrongs Democracy 21 has called out in the past, and no endorsement of hearings on the targeting of conservative groups: [NOTE: See update at end of post.]
Statement of Democracy 21 President… Continue reading
“What Does the IRS Scandal Have to Do with SuperPAC’s?”
I spoke with Warren Olney on “To the Point” about the IRS Mess (listen at 1:42 mark).