{"id":22710,"date":"2014-05-08T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22710"},"modified":"2014-05-08T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:41:07","slug":"the-internal-revenue-service-audit-rate-for-tea-party-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22710","title":{"rendered":"The Internal Revenue Service Audit Rate For Tea Party Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> Audit Rate for Tea Party donors is something I take personally–my husband and I were audited<\/a> for the first time in 43 years after making a donation to the Tea Party. Nothing in our tax return had changed, and after a year of being told that the IRS needed more time, nothing was found.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Washington Times<\/a> reported that after checking the donor lists the IRS collected from the Tea Party, 10 percent of those donors were audited. Kiplinger<\/a> posted a story in March 2013 stating:<\/p>\n

The IRS audits only slightly more than 1% of all individual tax returns<\/a> annually.<\/strong><\/div>\n

…2012 IRS statistics show that people with incomes of $200,000 or higher had an audit rate of 3.70%, or one out of every 27 returns. Report $1 million or more of income? There’s a one-in-eight chance your return will be audited. The audit rate drops significantly for filers making less than $200,000: Less than 1% (0.94%) of such returns was audited during 2012, and the vast majority of these exams were conducted by mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think there is a problem here. Until we find out who ordered the audits, I think we need to ask the ‘public servants<\/a>‘ involved why they were not serving the public.<\/p>\n

The article at the Washington Times reminds us:<\/p>\n

Ms. Lerner ran the division overseeing nonprofit groups. She has since retired from the IRS<\/a> but has refused to testify to Congress<\/a> about her role in the targeting, citing her Fifth Amendment<\/a> right against self-incrimination<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House voted Wednesday to hold her in contempt of Congress<\/a> for refusing to talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Times also mentions another recent problem with the IRS:<\/p>\n

On another matter, the commissioner told the panel that he is taking steps to be able to deny agency bonuses to IRS<\/a> employees who hadn\u2019t paid their taxes. The agency\u2019s inspector general last month reported that more than 1,000 employees received bonuses within a year of having tax problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Koskinen<\/a> said he is working with the IRS<\/a> union to rewrite their agreement so that those employees can\u2019t be paid bonuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGoing forward, if someone has been disciplined for failure to comply with the tax code<\/a>, they will be ineligible for a performance award,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also said the agency would try to fire employees who cheat on their taxes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doesn’t all of the above fall under the category of basic common sense?<\/p>\n

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