Posted on 05/21/2013 7:40:38 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
A California tea party group sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, saying it was among the conservative organizations the federal government targeted for special scrutiny because of its political positions. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, seeks the certification of a class action, which could open the floodgates for as many as 300 other right-wing groups to join the legal effort.
NorCal Tea Party Patriots, based in Colfax, California, told the court that the IRS discriminated against it because of the beliefs of its members, subjecting it to 'a lengthy and costly delay in recognition of their tax-exempt status, and the required disclosure of the personal political beliefs, writings, thoughts, and activities' of its members.
NorCal's website describes its members as 'volunteers who simply love their country and want to save it from a tyrannical takeover.'
Ginni Rapini, the group's founding president, told KGO-ABC7 in San Francisco last week that the IRS made unreasonable demands when she applied for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status for the organization.
'They wanted every email I had ever sent out,' she said. 'They wanted the transcripts of every speech from any speaker at any event, meeting or anything that we had had.'
Like hundreds of other groups, she waited for more than two years while her application sat in the IRS's Cincinnati, Ohio office, never hearing from the agency why it was being delayed. NorCal's tax-exempt status was granted in August 2012, nearly 29 months after the application was filed.
The delays were unreasonable, according to the federal lawsuit, 'because if their tax-exempt status had been ultimately denied they would have been forced to retroactively file tax returns and pay taxes and penalties for up to two years while their applications were pending.'
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Oh I’m sorry, I forgot - California is the most conservative state in the entire union.
My mistake, please forgive me. :)
If I were a lib in California, I wouldn’t be afraid of you either.
But don’t feel bad: libs aren’t afraid of us anywhere in this country or the IRS wouldn’t be strangling us.
You have quite apparently never been to Modoc or Butte Counties.
So who am I disparaging now?
Oh, how about Jim Robinson?
Clueless. There's a cheese in charge of a $10 million a year lab at a prestigious nearby university who'd beg to differ. Seeing as they push most of the environmental initiatives in the entire Western US...
But I'm wasting my breath. Have a nice day.
Instead of lecturing me with your snide little holier than thou speeches - how about you go argue with the libs?
I don’t understand why I catch more hell from my fellow conservatives than I do liberals.
While you’re sitting on your ass, being the smartest, most observant person in the room the left is taking over your government.
You live in California? Where your legislature is 2/3 liberal Democrat? Where your governor is liberal Democrat? Where both of your Federal Senators are liberal Democrat? Where most of your Federal House members are liberal Democrat?
I don’t know what to say to you.
On another thread there is a story about the IRS in California has seized 60 million health records and won’t give them back because they know nothing will be done to them. The records include all judges and court house staff.
But I’m sure the Tea Parties suing in California will still get a fair day in court, right?
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