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[QUOTE]Originally posted by raybond: [QB] Member Rated: 3 Icon 1 posted 04-06-2013 18:31 Profile for raybond Send New Private Message Edit/Delete Post Reply With Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRS Politicization Comes In Many Forms Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the run-up to last year's presidential election purposefully delayed processing applications for tax-exempt status from politically conservative groups, pried unnecessarily into their internal affairs and singled out Tea Party activists and donors for tax audits has produced a firestorm of righteous indignation. The furor is understandable given the popular view that the IRS is a neutral nonpartisan agency with no particular agenda other than collecting taxes. But nothing could be further from the truth. As Michael Scherer noted recently in Time magazine, the IRS has been used frequently since World War II to harass and intimidate political organizations. Under President John F. Kennedy, for example, the IRS had a program known as the "Ideological Organizations Project," which was used to investigate right-wing groups. President Richard Nixon famously compiled his "enemies list," using the IRS to microscopically examine the tax returns of mainly left-wing antiwar groups and activists. According to a 1997 book, "Unbridled Power: Inside the Political Culture of the IRS," a super-secret "Special Services Staff" created within the IRS in response to Nixon's directive eventually targeted 11,000 private individuals and organizations for politically inspired tax audits. The IRS also has been known to go easy on friends of the White House and powerful members of Congress. According to the same book, the head of the IRS's Chicago office intervened in 1979 to prevent local agents from auditing the tax return of a staffer working for then-Rep. Frank Annunzio. In a 2001 peer-reviewed article I wrote with Michael Reksulak of Georgia Southern University and Marilyn Young of Lipscomb University for the journal Economics & Politics, we found a statistically significant pattern of abuse. First, we assembled a dataset consisting of blind information (meaning we had no access to names, Social Security numbers or any personal information) on all individual income tax returns filed from 1992 through 1997 across the IRS's 33 geographically defined districts. Our examination of the data showed a disturbing pattern. In addition to the usual criteria the IRS uses to screen returns for closer attention, such as individuals reporting income from self-employment or claiming unusually large deductions or tax credits, the data showed that tax returns were significantly less likely to be audited if the taxpayer lived in a district that was politically important to the sitting president or was represented by a member of Congress serving on a committee with IRS oversight responsibility. -------------------- Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posts: 2967 | From: beautiful California | Registered: Sep 2008 | IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator [/QB][/QUOTE]
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