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Kind of strange they had a whole article about decreasing fraud cases, and don't mention the IRS had to apologize for aggressive targeting of conservative group
by creaghpatr 8y ago
Kind of strange they had a whole article about decreasing fraud cases, and don't mention the IRS had to apologize for aggressive targeting of conservative groups in October 2017. Maybe that's why their budget got cut?
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...
- tacomonstrous 8y agoFrom the Wikipedia article: "In October 2015, the Justice Department notified Congress that there would be no charges against the former IRS official Lois Lerner or against anyone else in the IRS. The investigation found no evidence of illegal activity or the partisan targeting of political groups and found that no IRS official attempted to obstruct justice”
- ams6110 8y agoFunny then that they apologized for what were totally legal and non-partisan actions?
- moate 8y agoHow are those related? They got their budget cut in retaliation for (perceived) partisan targeting by an administration on the same side as the groups they were auditing. That doesn't mean these groups weren't committing fraud, or just that they were committing fraud at a rate out of line with any other randomly selected group, just that the people who control the IRS's funding wanted to send a message to the IRS about how they should behave.
- creaghpatr 8y agoCorrect, which makes it strange not to be mentioned in the article.
- tasty_freeze 8y agoNo, it was the usual right wing noise machine at work. More than 100 left-leaning groups were investigated as well. And what is completely ignored is that the root of it was a spike in PACs claiming to be charity organizations in order to hide their donor lists.