Posted on 02/29/2012 9:17:32 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Numerous Tea Party chapters claim IRS attempts to sabotage nonprofit status
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published February 28, 2012 | FoxNews.com
Tea Party chapters around the nation are blasting the Internal Revenue Service after the federal agency sent them letters demanding information about their politics, contributors and even family members.
In letters sent from IRS offices in Cincinnati earlier this month, chapters including the Waco (Texas) Tea Party and the Ohio Liberty Council were asked to provide a list of donors, identify volunteers, financial support for and relationships with political candidates and parties, and even printed copies of their Facebook pages.
"Some of what they (the IRS) asked was reasonable, but there were some requests on there that were strange," Toby Marie Walker, president of the Waco Tea Party told FoxNews.com. "It makes you wonder if they do this to groups like ACORN or other left-leaning groups.”
Read the complete letter sent to the Waco Tea Party by the IRS
The chapters that received requests were registering for nonprofit status as a 501(c)4 organizations. The classification mainly differs from 501(c)3 groups in that donors cannot deduct their contributions from their taxable income.
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The IRS cannot exist if there is to be liberty. When we first attempted to tax, and therefore know, what everyone earned we set upon a path to the eventual destruction of America. The Fair Tax would be a start to a rebirth of freedom.
0bama and his secular progressive kool-aid drinking zombies are out to sabotage anything that’s good about America!
Be Ever Vigilant!
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