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

by Richard Kuehn on 05/15/13

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I wrote yesterday on my blog about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitting that they improperly targeted conservative political groups during the 2012 presidential election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.  At the time, it appeared that this was done by an isolated rogue group of employees in the Cincinnati, Ohio office which also targeted non-profits which sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights as well as groups that criticized the government.  As it turned out, the scandal went deeper, with at least four IRS offices involved in the scandal.  President Barack Obama called a press conference today to let the public know that he had told the Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to hold those responsible accountable and indeed he did.  A number of employees have already been discipline and Mr. Lew asked the head of the IRS, Stephen Miller, to resign.  He did and his resignation has been accepted.  I'm glad our government acted quickly.  Our Board of Governors worked very hard to get our tax exempt status and it always pains me to see non-profits that are using their status for dubious purposes and those which are attacked for dubious reasons.  Hopefully this bad chapter in our government's tax collecting arm is now over.

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