[Alberta's Child]

Click on the link near the top of the article and read through the redacted letter from the IRS dated September 2011. This wasn't a case of the IRS "spying" on anyone. It was the last step in an ongoing dispute between the IRS and an HOA about the tax-exempt status of the HOA. There's a lot of good information there that reinforces my prior comment that this was a terrible example for someone to use to complain about unjustifiable intrusion by the IRS. It looks like the HOA "got caught with their pants down," for example, because they apparently stated that their streets are public roads but they have a security gate to verify that anyone driving there is an owner or visitor. LOL.

For what it's worth, I believe a non-profit organization has to re-qualify for its 501(c)(4) status periodically -- maybe even every year. So the people managing this particular HOA may have made multiple fraudulent representations about the HOA's status in the past. They should consider themselves lucky that they're only being asked to file returns from prior years.

[AMDG&BVMH]

point taken but all the more reason to repeal the IRS code and replace it with something that raises revenue without worrying about the streets people live on and the associations they form . . . too complicated and potentially intrusive.

IMHO ; )