IRS “Lookout Lists” Also Included Liberal Groups. So, Was It Bipartisan “Targeting?”
A new round of documents from the IRS, that aren’t really new, doesn’t really change the basic narrative on the IRS “targeting” story.
A new round of documents from the IRS, that aren’t really new, doesn’t really change the basic narrative on the IRS “targeting” story.
A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.
Today is the deadline for Darryl Issa to respond to a request from Elijah Cummings to defend a decision not to release IRS interview transcripts. What happens if Issa doesn’t respond?
Without full transcripts, the excerpts released by the House Oversight Committee are worthless.
The TIGTA audit reveals the BOLO “Tea Party” list was right 81% of the time. But does that change anything?
Tax analyst Martin A. Sullivan finds that 1/3rd of “potentially political applications” approved by the IRS were from non-conservative groups.
Just about all of the substantive information in the excerpts was already revealed in the TIGTA audit.
Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?
Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.
The US Senate wants to know why Apple and other big technology companies are paying so little into the US Treasury.
Almost no one can confidently explain, let alone define, the specifics of the 501(c)4 designation.
What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.
For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.
The days of tax-free online shopping are coming to an end.
The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.
Kevin Drum argues that, “We Don’t Have a Spending Problem. We Have an Aging Problem.”
With less than a week left, the odds of a deal to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” seem longer than ever.
Last night’s defeat of “Plan B” demonstrated yet again that John Boehner does not really control his caucus.
The Republican leadership in the House suffered a big loss tonight:.
Grover Norquist has seriously undercut the credibility of the ATR anti-tax pledge.
The latest offer from John Boehner includes a significant concession.
From a political point of view, the GOP’s position on taxes makes no sense at all.
Whether it comes now or in January, President Obama is going to win the tax debate.