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DesideriScuri -> RE: IRS -- Targeting of Conservatives Question (5/14/2013 9:22:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
My understanding IRS-Conservative issue is:
The IRS was reviewing non-profit status applications from conservative organizations with a heightened scrutiny. The IRS was not auditing conservative organizations or ipso-facto denying conservative non profit applications. Is this correct?
I see the same type of heightened scrutiny from the USCIS towards small businesses trying to sponsor their employees for green cards and employment. The regulator requests more evidence to make a decision b/c they suspect smaller businesses of fraud more so than bigger businesses.
I don't like it when a client is targeted, but if the facts support my client I will win the outcome because I can produce the evidence to win.
In the IRS case its officers suspected that conservative non profit applications were fraudulent or in non compliance with IRS rules, so requests for further information/evidence where issued to the petitioners. Is this the extent of the issue?
Back to the Conservative organizations applying for non profit status. If they merit the status and can prove it, they will get it. The issue seems to be having to meet a greater burden of proof in the application process than other applicants.
Please correct me if I am wrong in any of my thinking above.
There was a concerted effort on the part of an IRS office in Cincinnati to scrutinize certain groups more than other groups. These groups contained, within their names, "tea party" and/or "patriot." The former will typically only be used by conservative groups, while conservative or liberal groups can lay claim to being patriots. Had there been any groups found to not be meeting the necessary documentation or whatever, to qualify as tax-exempt, there would show to be good reason for the increased scrutiny. There weren't any cases where the applications were denied, though. So, for all the applications processed in the Cincinnati office (unless they process each and every application from the entire nation), there isn't damning evidence that this goes any higher up the IRS administrative hierarchy, let alone any higher than the IRS.
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For what its worth, Republicans in Congress are littering Obama's agency nominees with reams of questions. The EPA nominee was asked to answer over 2000 written questions issued by Congressional Republicans.
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Not worth anything. Completely different.
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