Thursday, January 14, 2016

"IRS May Still Be Targeting Conservative Groups"

Americans for Tax Reform: Serious internal control flaws mean the IRS may still be unfairly selecting Americans for an audit “based on an organization’s religious, educational, political, or other views,” according to a pair of reports released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today.  As GAO notes, certain deficiencies increase the risk of unfair audit selection based on a taxpayers First Amendment rights. As the report finds:
“The control deficiencies increase the risk of selecting organizations for audit in an unfair manner—for example, based on an organization’s religious, educational, political, or other views.”
GAO audited Wage & Investment (W&I) and Small Business/Self-employed (SB/SE) divisions in response to a request from House Ways & Means Committee members led by Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-Ill.).

These requests were made in response to IRS targeting conservative groups. This targeting resulted in just one conservative non-profit being granted tax exempt status over a three year period.

6 comments:

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

The IRS needs some serious purging. We must keep Hillary and Sanders away from power or it will never happen.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

There has never been a weaker congress than the ones under Obama. I mean under literally.

I'm not a historian, so I really don't know that for sure. But that is my impression.

ricpic said...

Regarding the weak congress: the disaster unfolding is at root the collapse of the separation of powers with the legislature ceding all power to the executive. And why? Ooh, if we Republicans in Congress use the power of the purse it might lead to a shutdown and then we'd be branded the bad guys. So they gave up the power of the purse and the result is tyranny.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Congress is weak, but nothing gets thru Harry Reid's senate without reconciliation. Still, cram procedural manipulations down Reid's damn corrupt throat. Just like he did with party-line vote Totalitarian-O-Care.

Methadras said...

IRS May Still Be Targeting Conservative Groups

Really? No shit? Are you sure? I can't even...

edutcher said...

May?

And the sun may rise in the east, too.