IRS denies tea party groups after long wait for decision on tax-exempt status (7 Yrs)

washington times ^ | 11/14/16 | Stephen Dinan

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Nearly seven years after it applied to the IRS for nonprofit status, the Albuquerque Tea Party has finally been given a decision: Denied.

The tax agency, under orders from a federal judge, is belatedly tackling the remaining tea party cases that it delayed for years,
and so far the tea party isn’t doing well.
Only one of the three groups in the case was approved, and the other two, including Albuquerque, got notices of proposed denials last week.

The applicants will have a chance to appeal, but the denials aren’t sitting well with the groups,
whose attorney said it’s more evidence that the IRS continues to single out the tea party for abuse.

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“It is clear that we still have an IRS that is corrupt and incapable of self-correction,” said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice,
which represented a number of tea party groups in a case against the tax agency.

The one group that was approved was Unite in Action, a Michigan-based organization that first applied for tax-exempt status more than six years ago.
The Albuquerque Tea Party and Tri Cities Tea Party from Washington state were notified of proposed denials.

[BenLurkin]

Drain the Swamp

[Missouri gal]

Sixty-six days for the a-holes. Reapply under the next admin.

[Boomer One]

Under audit from the IRS and headed to Tax Court. Suspect it was my donations to Judicial Watch, etc. that triggered the audit. IRS broke normal procedure in not discussing my case with me prior to sending deficiency letter. In essence, they forced me to incur additional expense. CPA is confident I will win but it will still cost me $$$’s to win my case. Did I mention I hate the IRS?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Getting started on fixing the corruption at the IRS and specifically resolving issues with the Tea Party groups needs to be something the Trump administration takes care of immediately, within it’s first 100 days.

[Nifster]

I hope they continue to fight this in court

This is pure petulance

[KeyLargo]

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Trump Victory Proves that Money Does Not Buy Elections
The Center for Competitive Politics studied political spending in the 2016 election cycle, concluding that the data demonstrates strongly — yet again — that spending money does not buy electoral victory:

“The idea that money buys elections was disproven again last night by Donald Trump,” said CCP President David Keating. “Trump and his allies were outspent by huge margins. Money allows candidates and groups to speak. Voters decide based on their beliefs. It’s time to put aside the discredited idea that money buys votes. Instead, we should focus on expanding First Amendment freedoms for all Americans.”

Some political spending facts from CCP about last night’s election:

Clinton outspent Trump more than 2 to 1.

Pro-Clinton ads outnumbered pro-Trump ads 3 to 1.

Independent groups supporting Clinton outspent independent groups supporting Trump 3 to 1.

In the top states in terms of ads run (FL, OH, NC, PA, NV, IA), Clinton supporters ran over 3 times more ads. She lost 5 of these 6 states.

The three biggest super PAC spenders supporting Presidential candidates (Clinton, Bush, and Rubio) spent $275 million on losing efforts – nearly 1/4 of all super PAC spending.

CCP analyzed the data (more detail on CCP’s website) and concluded:

Taken together, what do these facts mean? The lesson is clear: political spending is an avenue for speech – it is necessary to buy political ads, to get a candidate’s message out, and pay for the numerous costs of a campaign, among other things. But despite many claims to the contrary, elections are not “bought” by millionaires and billionaires – they are decided by voters who either buy a candidate’s message or do not.

In the coming weeks and months, there will be many lessons to take away from Trump’s upset victory, but one should surely be that, despite many claims by advocates of greater speech regulation, wealthy individuals and the so-called “special interests” do not and cannot use money to decide the outcomes of elections.

For all of the liberal handwringing over individuals, corporations, PACs, and organizations exercising their First Amendment right to spend money to communicate a political message, the voters can, and do, make decisions without falling victim to the “corruption” of political spending. That is why the First Amendment exists—to protect the people against government officials who would like to decide what they hear and say.

http://thereplawyer.blogspot.com/

[DavidLSpud]

DRAIN THE FILTHY SWAMP-

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( ; )

[JimRed]

Refile on 1/21/17.

[MayflowerMadam]

Yesterday DH and I were discussing the whole IRS situation, and wondering if Lois Lerner and her butt boy would be indicted for anything under Trump. IRS targeting conservative groups hasn’t been in the news much lately, but it’s still an issue that needs to be dealt with.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

JimRed :" Refile on 1/21/17."

The world of Lois Lerner is deep and swampy !
DRAIN ALL the SWAMP !

[Twinkie]

Spite & Malice? - I’ll wager that on INAUGURATION DAY
in January 2017, all the typewriters and computer
keyboards will have the letter “T” removed and discarded.
Maybe more. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS!!

[CedarDave]

Sorry I missed this one. Hope Trump drains the IRS swamp.

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