Monterey, CA IRS Employees Target Tea Party Non-Profits For Investigation

Monterey, CA  IRS Employees Target Tea Party Non-Profits For Investigation :  View From A Non-Profit Serving Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez, Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas, Seaside And Soledad California The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted on Friday that they improperly targeted conservative political groups during the 2012 presidential election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.  Shame on them.  Regardless of your political views, it is a long and arduous process to get your non-profit status and tax-exempt organizations should not be the target of politically motivated investigations.  In 2012, IRS agents started auditing groups which had "tea party" or "patriot" in their IRS applications, and in some cases the non-profits were asked for a list of donors, which is against IRS policies.  The practice does not seem to be linked to the Obama administration but rather was done by a group of rogue employees at the IRS.  In fact, the IRS is currently led by a Bush administration appointee.  The Treasury Department's inspector general is going to look into the matter and I am sure that heads will roll.  "This was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and inappropriate.  That's not how we go about selecting cases for review," Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS group which is in charge of overseeing non-profits, told the American Bar Association.  I agree, and I hope that she gets to the bottom of this quickly.  It reflects poorly on the IRS and of course people will be pointing fingers at the Obama administration even if they had nothing to do with it.