Friday, May 17, 2013

IRS Tax Exempt Application Scandal


The IRS has been under a lot of fire recently due to how they handled certain tax exempt applications from advocacy groups such as the tea party groups. This is all said to have happened between 2010 and 2012 and the IRS claims they were separating and organizing 501(c)(4) applications to produce a better work flow. The applications that had the most difficult time were the ones containing "tea party" or "patriot" in their names. Some applicants were asked questions that were not customary and inappropriate, their applications fell through the cracks, or they received a much longer response time than other applicants.  Despite the IRS' opposite counterclaim of not selecting and organizing the applications in a political or partisan rationale, the head of Exempt Organizations at the IRS has made a public apology. The IRS says they fixed the situation last year and have adopted new procedures to prevent such thing from happening again. Since this situation has been uncovered it has not been handled lightly, the head of the IRS, Steven Miller was forced to resign on May 15th and today marks the first hearing of a series of Congressional Hearings on the IRS scandal. Stay tuned for news and updates as we follow the hearings. 

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