IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups

WASHINGTON -- In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.

 That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn't be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.

In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications from similar liberal and progressive groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.

 As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groups with liberal-sounding names had their applications approved in as little as nine months. With names including words like "Progress" or "Progressive," the liberal groups applied for the same tax status and were engaged in the same kinds of activities as the conservative groups.

https://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2158831

IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-asks-for-reading-list-tea-party-group-sends-constitution/

ain't that the damn truth  

Thank you for vindicating everything I've said about the left.

you really should quit pissing people of in the cfb forum  

Glad to know the impartial and non-partisan administration of the tax code is something you're opposed to.

Equal justice under law!

Unless you oppose Obama and his ilk.

Lovely.

Talk about an agency out of control:

The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.

According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data.

"This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents," the complaint reads. "No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records," it continued.

 

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/irs-face-lawsuit-over-theft-60-million-patient-health-records

 

 

If all of this doesn't lead to major changes at the IRS then nothing will.

 

 

14,

Why didn't you support Ron Paul/Gary Johnson more, during the election, with your views on the constitution and the IRS?

Ktrain,

I think Ron Paul is a racist and a loon. He was involved in publishing racist news letters.

Gary Johnson seems a bit more intelligent than Paul