IRS continues to hound Tea Party Patriots, demands more data for tax-exempt status

The initial firestorm surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups may have subsided, but tea party leaders say the situation has only become worse and may lead to more lawsuits against the embattled agency.

New documents show the depth of information the IRS is seeking from Tea Party Patriots, a leading conservative group that first applied for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status in late 2010 and one of many organizations singled out for extra scrutiny by the Obama administration.

An IRS letter sent to the group last week and obtained by The Washington Times contains a laundry list of requests related to virtually all the group’s activities, including its involvement in the 2012 election cycle and its get-out-the-vote efforts, fundraising activities, all radio and TV advertising, and other information.

The IRS also is asking for detailed financial records, including “the amounts and percentages of your total expenses that were for fundraising activities in the tax year 2011, 2012 and 2013.”

The Aug. 20 request came as a shock to Tea Party Patriots, which said it already has provided to the IRS extensive information on all of its activities and thinks it is long past time to receive a “yes” or “no” answer.

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I'll wager just about any amount of money that the Soviet Paranoia Lies Center has its grubby mitts in this mess somewhere.

Anti Federalist wrote:I'll wager just about any amount of money that the Soviet Paranoia Lies Center has its grubby mitts in this mess somewhere.

This is a huge agency, this year adding 1600 new IRS agents.

 

Making new jobs!

 

I wish the Tea Party would push this. Why is everybody so corrupt?

WHL wrote:I wish the Tea Party would push this.  Why is everybody so corrupt?

 
Because Washington, DC     has become a Marxist state within itself!
 
In the old Soviet Union, corruption benefited their one-party members—and was expected: it beats me why Snowden would disclose the internal spying-corruption of the Marxist in the White House, then accept political asylum in the most infamous of internal-spying Marxist states!