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How is this any different than the IRS flagging those for audit who claim the home office deduction?
Poor analogy, the correct analogy would be they were flagging people that took the home office deduction that worked for conservative companies.
You don;t see the issue yet? They were not flagging groups that contain terms like "Occupy" and "Tea Party". They were flagging groups just with "Tea Party"
But this is exactly what they did do, with the NAACP in October of 2004. And in that case, the investigation wasn't some office gone rouge, it was at the demands of several republican congressmen, this making it far worse than this instance.
The NAACP is very politically active....supporting dummycrats and telling members who to vote for.
They should be disqualified from tax exempt status.
Are any of you lefties intellectually honest enough to agree?
The IRS has a duty to try to insure organizations seeking tax free status are actually following the legal requirements. This has been a part of their job for many decades. Since Citizens United, there has been an explosion of such requests, mostly from Tnuts, but not only them. How anybody say TParty Patriots is primarily working for general welfare or Crossroads USA or Organizing for America. They are obvious political groups. The SCOTUS opened up this can of worms, IRS is trying to contain it. Their method of trying to locate bad actors is not good, but the effort is badly needed. I don't think our taxes should pay for these groups or that they should be able to get money from unknown sources.
Since you have no problem with the IRS targeting individuals and organizations, lets expend their scrutiny to including specifically auditing all those who claim to be "Progressives."
After all, when the Secretary of the Treasury is both a Progressive and a known tax cheat, one has to wonder how many other Progressives are avoiding paying taxes.
"The Internal Revenue Service was absolutely correct to look into the abuse of the tax code by political organizations masquerading as “social welfare” groups over the last three years. The agency’s mistake — and it was a serious one — was focusing on groups with “Tea Party” in their name or those criticizing how the country is run."
The IRS has a duty to try to insure organizations seeking tax free status are actually following the legal requirements. This has been a part of their job for many decades. Since Citizens United, there has been an explosion of such requests, mostly from Tnuts, but not only them. How anybody say TParty Patriots is primarily working for general welfare or Crossroads USA or Organizing for America. They are obvious political groups. The SCOTUS opened up this can of worms, IRS is trying to contain it. Their method of trying to locate bad actors is not good, but the effort is badly needed. I don't think our taxes should pay for these groups or that they should be able to get money from unknown sources.
They apologized for being overzealous towards apparent conservative groups, yet here you sit defending them as if they were denying the practice.
As I stated above, who is more political than NAACP?
Who is more politically active than black churches?
Try to be intellectually honest at least once bob.
We should all be outraged. The IRS should never have an agenda other than the gathering of legitimate revenue of the federal government.
Part of the IRS' very legitimate agenda is to ensure that organizations with tax-exempt status are fulfilling the requirements and obligations of being a tax-exempt organization.
The IRS has been investigating numerous tax-exempt organizations quite thoroughly for the past several years because of new legislation tightening up requirements for tax-exempt status.
The IRS has been investigating numerous tax-exempt organizations quite thoroughly for the past several years because of new legislation tightening up requirements for tax-exempt status.
Which other organizations based on their ideology were they targeting?
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