Saturday, May 25, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 16
- ABA Journal: IRS Official Took Fifth in House Testimony, But Did She Waive Right to Do So?
- Bloomberg: IRS Safeguards Toothless in Tea Party Nonprofit Cases
- Daily Beast: Former NPR CEO Ken Stern: The IRS Had the Right Idea
- The Economist: Why Americans Love the IRS
- FactCheck.org: IRS Officials Misled Congress, Public
- More Soft Money Hard Law: IRS Enforcement Reform and the Court
- Roll Call op-ed: IRS and Scrutiny: Reviewing Review, by Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.)
- Simple Justice: Waving Good-Bye To The Fifth
- Wall Street Journal: Agency's Tax-Exempt Unit Faulted in Past Reports by Its Watchdog
- Wall Street Journal: The I.G. Saw Something, But Did He Have to Say Something?
- Wall Street Journal: Inside IRS Unit Under Fire: Office at Center of Controversy Rankled Other Groups With its Aggressive Tactics
- Wall Street Journal: The IRS Scandal and Donors
- Wall Street Journal: The IRS Story Just Won’t Go Away
- Washington Post: In Defense of Lois Lerner
- Washington Post: IRS Scandal Story: Hard on White House, Hard on Media
- Washington Post: Lois Lerner’s “Worst Week”
- Washington Times: IRS, Obama, and Plausible deniability
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012 Election (May 10, 2013)
- WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is Appalling (May 11, 2013)
- Schmalbeck on the IRS 'Targeting' of Conservative Groups (May 12, 2013)
- The Deepening IRS Scandal (May 13, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 5 (May 14, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Vic Fleischer on the IRS Scandal (May 14, 2013)
- Inspector General: Ineffective IRS Management Allowed Agents to Target Conservative Groups (May 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 6 (May 15, 2013)
- Ellen Aprill, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions About the IRS and About the Report (May 15, 2013)
- Phillip Hackney, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the Lookout for False Partisan Witchunts (May 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 7 (May 16, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 8 (May 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 9 (May 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 10 (May 19, 2013)
- SNL on the IRS Scandal (May 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 11 (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal: Really?! (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 12 (May 21, 2013)
- Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 13 (May 22, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 14 (May 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 15 (May 24, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 24, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/irs.html
The Wall Street Journal piece titled The IRS Story Won't Go Away is correct only because the WSJ and others keep publicizing it, without any new facts or information. That is because for the Republicans this is just a political event, a story that allows them to attack the Obama Administration, just as the Libya story is a story that allows them to attack Ms. Clinton.
If the digging cannot find any new information that the story will end once a new item of news takes it place. Notice that so far the American people know what is going on here, that despite the fact that the IRS has some great people working there, as all of us who practice in the tax area know because of our contacts with them, the overall management of the agency is poor because its senior management is inept and its funding is not sufficient to do the job it is charged with.
Posted by: David R. | May 25, 2013 6:33:46 PM