IRS backs off proposal critics warned would ‘silence’ conservative groups

Fox News ^ | May 22, 2014 | (With AP)

[Olog-hai]

The IRS has agreed to overhaul a controversial proposal that Republican lawmakers warned would revive the agency’s “harassment and intimidation” of conservative groups, after receiving a record number of comments on the proposed regulation. […]

At issue were new rules that would prohibit so-called 501(c)(4) groups from counting “candidate-related political activity” and other political work as activities that qualify them to be tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations. Critics of the proposal warned that this would effectively force many grassroots organizations to shut down. …

[Regulator]

So how much longer do we let this criminal agency exist?

[ZULU]

And if you believe ANYTHING that bastard in Washington or his agency chiefs tell you, I have a bridge to sell you Brooklyn. Hell, considering who is mayor, I would sell you the entire city.

[skinkinthegrass]

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