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  • IRS agent: We're still applying extra scrutiny to Tea Party applications

    08/13/2013 12:07:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Hotair ^ | 08/13/2013 | Ed Morrissey
    One might expect that the extra scrutiny applied to conservative political groups by the IRS would have ended after the practice got exposed three months ago. At least according to a recent deposition from the House Ways and Means Committee investigation into the scandal, IRS agents still are being directed to automatically apply extra scrutiny to applications mentioning the Tea Party, even if no other political activity is indicated in the application: Q: “If you saw – I am asking this currently, if today a Tea Party case, a group – a case from a Tea Party group came in...
  • Exclusive: IRS hires "hundreds" for new wealth unit

    12/12/2009 9:50:19 AM PST · by tired1 · 163 replies · 5,717+ views
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities is rapidly taking shape with the hiring of hundreds of employees..... President Barack Obama has proposed tightening tax rules for U.S. multinationals, including one in which companies delay paying taxes on income earned offshore, a legal practice known as deferral that officials say is abused.... "With any new thing, you never want to be the guinea pig," Mary Lou Fahey, general counsel for the Tax Executive Institute, comprised of business executives, said.