{"id":26113,"date":"2015-07-23T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26113"},"modified":"2015-07-23T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:54:22","slug":"the-internal-revenue-service-under-president-obama-is-still-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26113","title":{"rendered":"The Internal Revenue Service Under President Obama Is Still Political"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox Business<\/a> posted an article today about a Government Accountability Office<\/a> investigation of the Internal Revenue Service<\/a>.\u00a0A House Oversight subcommittee\u00a0will take testimony from IRS commissioner John Koskinen<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The GAO now says that IRS political \u201ctargeting is indeed possible in the audit process\u201d for nonprofits, largely due to poor agency oversight and controls.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the IRS has not taken sufficient steps to prevent targeting Americans based on their personal beliefs,\u201d the GAO says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Specifically, The GAO found that \u201ccontrol deficiencies\u201d do \u201cincrease the risk\u201d that the IRS nonprofit unit \u201ccould select organizations for examinations in an unfair manner\u2014for example, based on an organization\u2019s religious, educational, political or other views.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Judicial Watch,<\/a> a watchdog group, says it has obtained Freedom of Information Act<\/a> filings that show IRS workers were using donor lists from conservative nonprofit groups to target people for audit. It also says documents detail a October 2010 meeting between former IRS official Lois Lerner, Justice Department officials<\/a> and the FBI<\/a> to plan “for the possible criminal prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations<\/a> for alleged illegal political activity,” and that the IRS transferred confidential tax returns from 113,000 nonprofit social welfare groups to the FBI “as part of its prosecution effort.” The documents also show “the Obama DOJ wanted IRS employees who were going to testify to Congress to turn over documents to the DOJ before giving them to Congress.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IRS is a very obvious example of a government agency out of control. We need to revise our tax system so that the IRS is no longer necessary. The IRS is a descendant of\u00a0 the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, established in The Revenue Act of 1862<\/a> as part of a temporary war-time tax plan. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution<\/a> (1913) allowed Congress to levy an income tax.<\/p>\n

It is time to seriously consider a flat tax or a value-added tax.<\/p>\n

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Fox Business posted an article today about a Government Accountability Office investigation of the Internal Revenue Service.\u00a0A House Oversight subcommittee\u00a0will take testimony from IRS commissioner John Koskinen today. The article reports: The GAO now says that IRS political \u201ctargeting is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[420,8351,284,7056,2640,8897,68,189],"class_list":["post-26113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-freedom-of-information-act-united-states","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-john-koskinen","tag-judicial-watch","tag-nonprofit-organization","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-united-states-house-committee-on-oversight-and-government-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26114,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions\/26114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}