Posted on 05/16/2013 8:15:32 AM PDT by tellw
COLUMBUS, Ohio, —In the wake of the mushrooming IRS scandal, it was learned today that the widening circle of pro-life leadership hit with attempted harassment and intimidation by the IRS has included at least two members of the officers and board members of Pharmacists For Life International (PFLI). PFLI disclosed today that at least two of its officers and board members have been subjected to ongoing harassment and intimidation attempts by the IRS through continued and costly nuisance audits and threatening letters over a period of months and years. The two, who are not being identified at present, have generally come away with clean audits and demands for information by the IRS, often with ugly threats of reprisal, confiscation of money and property and inconvenient arrangements for audit reviews and meetings. At least one time, the harassing audit proved to yield a larger REFUND for one of the two individuals, much to the consternation of the IRS.
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FYI
‘Very Frightening’: Prominent Catholic Prof. Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out Against Obama and Demanded to Know Who Was Paying Her
http://news.yahoo.com/very-frightening-prominent-catholic-prof-claims-irs-audited-182400466.html
It’s not over. The big guy wants it to be over.
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The purpose is to "test" the existing stream of returns to develop statistics to counsel their 'audit selection' programs.
Every now and then someone will complain about these audits and Congress will get involved, hold a hearing, and then move on to other business ~ issuing a report that IRS probably ought to consider telling people that it's just a baseline audit needed so they can improve/correct their program used to select returns for audit.
I think the 'baseline audits' were last used for the purpose of intimidation during Jimmy Carter's regime. But with Obama, I'm pretty sure they cut back on baseline audits to free up resources for the purpose of intimidation. Jimmy didn't give IRS any more funds to do this sort of thing so they ratted him out.
Congress needs to bring a bunch of these groups and people in before a special hearing with their complaints for exposure.
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