http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15…
From the article:
“Tax agency officials told lawmakers in a briefing yesterday that 471 groups received additional scrutiny, a total that indicates a crackdown on politically active nonprofit groups that extends beyond the Tea Party outfits.”
“In early 2011, the IRS denied the tax-exempt status of an affiliate of the San Francisco-based Emerge America, which trains Democratic women to run for office. The agency said it was disqualified because the group’s activities were “conducted primarily for the benefit of a political party and a private group of individuals, rather than the community as a whole.”
“An Austin, Texas-based group, Progress Texas, received a letter from the IRS in February 2013 when it sought nonprofit status. The letter came from the agency’s Laguna Niguel, California, office, which sent essentially the same queries to Republican-leaning groups.
“As with the Tea Party groups, the IRS sought copies of promotional materials, backgrounds of officers, meeting minutes and specifics about activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives, that the organization said it would conduct.”
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How Is It A “scandal” When The Irs Also Targeted Liberal Groups?
Posted on May 31, 2013.
Grasping for straws I see…
They wouldn’t have anything to be outraged over then.
The scandal is that these groups were given 501c4 status when they were clearly political, NOT social welfare
IRS is underfunded and overworked
If the Tea Party members were to acknowledge that then they would lose their martyr status.
I suspect that the jump-the-gun mainstream media is beginning to regret using the word “target” before all the facts were known.
The so-called “Tea Party” was involved constantly in political campaigns—the DISQUALIFIER for receiving a 501(c)(4) tax exempt status. The publicity sought by the Tea Party even spoke openly about running spoiler candidates in primaries and they had their own Caucus in Congress, headed by the always-dumb Michelle Bachmann, a teapotty darling.
This is not even close to being a scandal. I suspect that this is a propaganda ploy set up by the Tea Party itself to put its name into prominence as a PR stunt in time for the midterm elections in 2014.
Finding 1 or 2 liberal groups does not equal “targeting”. when near 100% of the applications of liberal groups are pulled aside and next to 0 conservative groups are, then you’d have targeting of liberals.
I think it’s ironic when all through the campaign the republicans were complaining about people not paying taxes when at the same time the groups that supported them were trying to get out of paying taxes.