That may not be a correct assumption, depending on the makeup of the certain TP organizations. Before making a blank statement, it would be good to have some facts regarding the overall number of donors and amount of donations, and compare to overall audit rate based on donors' "financial demographics."
I would make a general assumption that small, newly formed TP orgs — and these are normally the ones which would be applying for tax-exempt status — would be initially (before broad fund-raising efforts from small donors) funded by a few well-to-do politically active individuals, i.e., the so-called 1%-ers (though some may fall well outside this income or wealth group).
In recent years IRS has been concentrating on auditing high net worth individuals — because, allegedly according to great bank robber Willie Sutton, "that's where the money is."
Now we find, from Chances of getting audited by the IRS lowest in years - CNBC / AP, 2014 April 14
..... Budget cuts and new responsibilities are straining the Internal Revenue Service's ability to police tax returns. This year, the IRS will have fewer agents auditing returns than at any time since at least the 1980s. ..... < snip > ..... Last year, the IRS audited less than 1 percent of all returns from individuals, the lowest rate since 2005. This year, Koskinen said, "The numbers will go down." ..... < snip > Your chances of getting audited vary greatly, based on your income. The more you make, the more likely you are to get a letter from the IRS. Only 0.9 percent of people making less than $200,000 were audited last year. That's the lowest rate since the IRS began publishing the statistic in 2006. By contrast, 10.9 percent of people making $1 million or more were audited. That's the lowest rate since 2010. Only 0.6 percent of business returns were audited, but the rate varied greatly depending on the size of the business. About 16 percent of corporations with more than $10 million in assets were audited. ..... < snip > As millions of Americans race to meet Tuesday's tax deadline, their chances of getting audited are lower than they have been in years. ..... < snip >
If average annual income of donors to these small TP orgs falls somewhere between $250K and $1.5M, that would make the approximately 10% audit rate be comfortably within normal statistical probability of audit for that group.
Conservatives need to have the facts before they jump on this news, so they won't make a laughing stock of themselves and jeopardize the entire IRS fiasco (for which Democrats currently have no excuse or defense) from being dismissed as statistics-and-math-challenged "right-wing extremists."
Dems' only hope is to latch onto some Republicans' mistake and make a campaign out of it. Let's make sure they don't get this opportunity, by examining the facts first.
all bs :you don’t have any info on the incomes of the tea party people the IRS audited
we all know here the IRS auditing 10% of the tea party people is too high and not a coincidence
why don’t you ping your list to this too since you pinged them defending the IRS
all bs :you don’t have any info on the incomes of the tea party people the IRS audited
we all know here the IRS auditing 10% of the tea party people is too high and not a coincidence
this article states that the audit rate is too high and that’s from the Washington Times:
“Despite assurances to the contrary, the IRS didn’t destroy all of the donor lists scooped up in its tea party targeting — and a check of those lists reveals that the tax agency audited 10 percent of those donors, much higher than the audit rate for average Americans, House Republicans revealed Wednesday.
I particularly like your last sentence, which - although I missed it as a concern - is absolutely spot-on.
Didn’t get to your post before I made the same point in #82. Agreed.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, as you make all good and reasonable points.
However, when you wrote:
” - - - Dems’ only hope is to latch onto some Republicans’ mistake and make a campaign out of it. - - - “
it occurred to me that you want to NOT hold Democrats accountable for THEIR mistakes, but that Republicans should patiently wait until ALL of the facts are released by the “LIE, DENY AND DON’T COMPLY” Obama Administration.
My question to you is as follows:
“How does your political action philosophy differ from what Doormat Republicans such as Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Ryan, Issa, Mike Rogers, Peter King of New York have been doing for the last 4 years?”
A “Lie, Deny and don’t Comply” Rogue Administration has unlimited control over the Legistlative Branch that refuses to hold a Rogue Administration accountable, as we witnessed during cave-in Republican response during the Autumn, 2013 Reid-Obama partial Federal shutdown.
Your position seems to be consistent with the Doormat Republicans who are currently refusing to use their Constitutional Power.
If I have drawn any incorrect conclusions about your philosophy, please correct me at your earliest convenience.