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Local tea party believes it was targeted by the IRS
Daily American Staff Writer, @damichellegThe president of Somerset County's tea party said the group was "put through the ringer" when trying to apply for a nonprofit designation. Roof Garden Patriots President Gregory Brant said that the application took years to process and that the...Tags: Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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IRS problem started with vague tax exemption rules
WASHINGTON — In spring 2010, agents in the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service, which handles applications for tax-exempt status, faced a surge of filings by new advocacy groups, with little guidance on how to treat them. Their...
Tags: Laws, Services and Shopping, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Political Fundraising
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House chairman sees IRS errors as part of pattern
ALAN FRAM,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration, a top House Republican said...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Republican Party, Sandy Levin, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Ex-IRS chief apologizes in hearing for 'foolish mistakes'
WASHINGTON – The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday morning for the agency's "foolish mistakes" in its handling of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status and attributed the IRS' actions to a misguided pursuit...Tags: Dave Camp, Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Sandy Levin
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Plugging leaks the right way
When it comes to prosecutors' investigations of leaks, you can count on journalists to dispense with impartiality and scream bloody murder. Upon learning that the Justice Department had seized the phone records of its reporters, The Associated Press...
Tags: Laws, Central Intelligence Agency, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...Tags: Patrick J. Toomey, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Jack Lew, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Internal Revenue Service
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Letters to the editor: Kids and school sports, NRA and billboards
Kids and school sports I am concerned about school sports programs taking over and controlling values and family time. I write this letter out of love for my 16-year-old son and many others. He loves to play soccer and football. He wakes up at 5:...Tags: Television Industry, Chocolate Cake, Internal Revenue Service, Periodicals, Interior Policy
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Watergate's lessons seem to be forgotten
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Government, U.S. Supreme Court
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Tea party tax filings show low-budget activism, with some million-dollar exceptions
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of tea party groups and other conservative organizations of the kind subjected to improper scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service operated with small budgets and rarely displayed overt partisan activities, according to...Tags: Karl Rove, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, The Associated Press, Internal Revenue Service
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IRS is ham-handed, but ...
Your personal feelings about the tea party shouldn't matter one bit when looking at the current Internal Revenue Service brouhaha. The whole thing smells rotten. It was ham-handed treatment by the IRS. And President Obama did the only thing he could...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Internal Revenue Service, Pension and Welfare
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Obama the latest in line of US presidents to face suggestions of political bias in IRS actions
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, Political Fundraising
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AP source: Obama to appoint senior budget official Daniel Werfel as acting IRS commissioner
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official says. Werfel will replace Steven Miller, ousted Wednesday amid...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Jack Lew, George W. Bush, Internal Revenue Service
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