IRS Targeted Donors

[The Rabbi]

So the scandal quickens. The IRS targeted donors to conservative groups, as well as the groups themselves. This is a transparent attempt at intimidation.
At what point will the Obamabots here realize that American democracy is under fire from this administration?
Donors To GOP Group Drew IRS Scrutiny - WSJ.com

 

[asaratis]

So the scandal quickens. The IRS targeted donors to conservative groups, as well as the groups themselves. This is a transparent attempt at intimidation.
At what point will the Obamabots here realize that American democracy is under fire from this administration?
Donors To GOP Group Drew IRS Scrutiny - WSJ.com

I'd love to read it but I'm not interested in subscribing to the WSJ. Can you print the salient points without violating copyright?

 

[The Rabbi]

At the same time the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea-party groups, the tax agency took the unusual step of trying to impose gift taxes on donors to a prominent conservative advocacy group formed in 2007 to build support for President George W. Bush's Iraq troop surge.

The probe of the group, Freedom's Watch, began in the unit led by Lois Lerner, the IRS official already under scrutiny for her role in the more recent targeting of conservative groups.
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The probe began in the unit led by Lois Lerner, director of the IRS's exempt-organizations unit.

While the IRS confirmed the existence of the gift-tax initiative in 2011, the identity of the group involved—as well as the affiliation of individual donors—remained a mystery.

Former officials of Freedom's Watch say they believe all five of the IRS audits involved donors to their group, based on conversations with IRS agents and donors at the time of the audits in 2011.

The IRS declined to comment, citing taxpayer confidentiality.

The gift-tax probe, after it became public in 2011, prompted an outcry from Congress and was quickly halted.

The now-defunct Freedom's Watch, which operated with a budget of about $56 million during its roughly two-year existence, spent about $10.7 million on issue ads in 2008, including television ads during special elections for House races in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Such groups, which are organized under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, are allowed to engage in some political-campaign activity, as long as that isn't their primary focus. They also don't have to disclose their donors' identities.

Critics say many groups abused their tax-exempt status by playing an outsize role in politics and that the IRS's scrutiny was appropriate.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have decried the tactics used by the agency, in particular the targeting of groups by their political leanings and their often heavy-handed questioning of groups seeking tax-exempt status.

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[TemplarKormac]

Like I said before. This goes way beyond the IRS.

 

[tinydancer]

So the scandal quickens. The IRS targeted donors to conservative groups, as well as the groups themselves. This is a transparent attempt at intimidation.
At what point will the Obamabots here realize that American democracy is under fire from this administration?
Donors To GOP Group Drew IRS Scrutiny - WSJ.com

I'd love to read it but I'm not interested in subscribing to the WSJ. Can you print the salient points without violating copyright?

Wait for WSJ tp fully load. You can click off on the subscription and still read their articles.

 

[Clementine]

Like I said before. This goes way beyond the IRS.

Yup. They are using the power granted them against the people. All government agencies are just tools to go after enemies.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Like I said before. This goes way beyond the IRS.

It evens go beyond Obama, it's the same group that labeled "End the Fed" aka "Occupy Wall Street" terrorists. It's the international global banking elite.