Posted on 06/24/2013 2:01:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
IRS Suspends Screening Criteria Used on Tea Party By JOHN D. MCKINNON
The Internal Revenue Service said on Monday it was suspending the use of screening criteria of the type that led to heavy-handed scrutiny of tea-party groups.
The IRS inspector general said last month that IRS workers used inappropriate criteria—such as flagging groups with terms such as "tea party" and "patriot" in their names—to select applications for tax-exempt status for a special, time-consuming review. IRS employees also targeted groups focused on issues such as government spending or debt.
In an interim report on the controversy released on Monday, the IRS blamed "significant management and judgment failures" for the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The agency has replaced a number of managers involved in the problematic reviews, said interim IRS leader Danny Werfel on a conference call with reporters. Mr. Werfel, who was brought in last month by the White House to clean up the IRS, succeeded the acting commissioner, Steven Miller, who was ousted soon after the controversy erupted in May.
The IRS said in the report it had found other "inappropriate" criteria being used by agency employees to flag for extra scrutiny applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status. But it didn't initially detail those criteria.
The agency said it was establishing a new process to give previously targeted groups a fast-track alternative for becoming tax-exempt. The report was released to provide an update on the IRS's internal investigation into what went wrong and what steps it is taking to fix the problems.
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the damage is done.
they successfully screwed conservative groups in 2012.
Too little, and way too late. It's time to end the corporate tax and the lies that accompany it. That's the very least of a long list of necessary fixes a new GOP majority must pass after next years elections.
No corporation ever paid a tax.
Yeah, I’m calling BS on their BS...
How can we ever trust this government ever again???
Also note that it has taken a couple of months for them to come up with, ‘But we targeted liberal groups as well!!!’
No doubt that they have used the interim time to generate the corroborating paper trail.
Changing the screening criteria won't matter a whit unless many IRS employees are fired and the institutional culture that produced the abuses is dismantled. But, of course, that won't happen. An aggressive, politicized IRS is exactly what the left wants.
>>Right. Now it will just try to screw
>>conservatives individually.
Been there, got that, passed the Audit.
Ummm, wasn’t it just a few ago the big-cheeses were testifying that this WASN’T EVEN HAPPENING?
Now, though, they admit that is WAS, but are only ‘suspending’ the same?
When will Congress get the cuffs out??
The more they delay and deny justice, the more punitive the final outcome is going to be for them.
Let’s just padlock all their offices until we get this matter of widespread pedophilia and graft cleared up, shall we?
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