by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The...
by Jane Richey | Mar 27, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Two Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have identified weaknesses in the Internal Revenue Service’s financial reporting controls. A report on information security, detailing the findings of an audit performed between April 2011 and March 2012 and released...
by Jane Richey | Mar 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is taking heat from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers for its oversight of certain groups engaging in political activity, in particular Tea Party organizations seeking tax-exempt status. In recent weeks, GOP lawmakers have followed...
by Jane Richey | Mar 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Landmark Legal Foundation sent a letter on Friday to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration requesting an investigation to determine whether officials with the Internal Revenue Service have engaged in misconduct in dealing with applications...
by Jane Richey | Mar 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
A Christian law firm is defending nearly 20 tea party organizations from apparent intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service. As reported recently on OneNewsNow, at the beginning of 2012 tea party organizations across the country began receiving letters from the IRS...
