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The IRS has (this decade) targeted specific institutions by their affiliations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy https://en.m.wikipedi

• vkou 7y ago
  And? Why are audits targeted to a type of organization a problem? If doctors started forming non-profits to do financial engineering to get tax-exempt status, I'd sure as hell hope that the IRS would devote a bit more scrutiny than usual to practitioners of that profession. Political groups started doing financial engineering to get tax-exempt status. The IRS started auditing them a bit more closely. I don't see the issue.
  • vageli 7y ago
    > And? Why are audits targeted to a type of organization a problem? > If doctors started forming non-profits to do financial engineering to get tax-exempt status, I'd sure as hell hope that the IRS would devote a bit more scrutiny than usual to practitioners of that profession. > Political groups started doing financial engineering to get tax-exempt status. The IRS started auditing them a bit more closely. I don't see the issue. The country's inspector general deemed it unlawful. Given the report that came out from the investigation, there seems to be more to the audits than neutral scrutiny that is not performed on the basis of ideology.