New IRS Chief Says Targeting Of Conservative Groups Was Broader And Longer Than Previously Disclosed

Agency Improperly Screened Groups Until Last Month…

Zip Weasel Zippers 6/24/2013

And yet heads still haven’t rolled over this.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Internal Revenue Service says inappropriate screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than was previously disclosed.

Danny Werfel told reporters Monday that after becoming acting […]

Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: ‘Everything comes from the top.’

Sean Higgins The Washington Examiner 5/19/2013

A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents.

The Post story anonymously quoted a staffer in Cincinnati […]

IRS Rejected Group on Behalf of Planned Parenthood

Mike Flynn Breitbart.com Big Government 16 May 2013

The IRS scandal of targeting tea party or conservative organizations grew deeper Wednesday with the revelation that the agency denied tax-exempt status to a pro-life organization because of its hypothetical opposition to Planned Parenthood. The Thomas Moore Society, a public interest law firm announced that one of […]

Franklin Graham: IRS targeted us, too

Reid J. Epstein Politico 5/14/2013

The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.

Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family’s international humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a […]

IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups

Stephen Ohlemacher Associated Press 5/10/2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words “tea party” […]

Why are IRS audits on charities up by 79% under Team Obama?

Peter Schweizer Opinion FoxNews.com 2/4/2013

Tax-exempt charities have their work cut out for them in 2013.

A record 46.2 million people now live in poverty, gas prices hit an all-time annual average $3.60 a gallon, food stamp enrollment is at 47.7 million (with an annual cost of over $74 billion) for the first time in […]

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