Saturday, May 18, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 9
- Bloomberg: Former IRS Commissioner Shulman Will Testify May 22
- Bloomberg: IRS Answers Leave Unsatisfied Republicans
- Bloomberg: IRS Wrote Lawyer’s Question That Prompted Scandal Disclosure
- CNN op-ed; IRS Scandal Is About Donors, Not Tax, by Roger Colinvaux (Catholic)
- Election Law Blog: Dept. of Profoundly Dumb PR Moves: IRS Edition, by Rick Hasen (UC-Irvine)
- FactCheck.org: IRS Not So ‘Independent’
- Human Events: Barack Obama Not Outraged; He Adores the IRS
- Human Events: Official in Charge of Corrupt IRS Department Promoted – To Top ObamaCare Enforcer
- L.A. Times: IRS Problem Started with Vague Tax Exemption Rules
- Legal Ethics Forum: IRS Scandal: Where Were the IRS and WH Lawyers?, by John Steele (Santa Clara)
- Legal Insurrection: IRS Planted Question at ABA Meeting Disclosing Targeting of Conservatives, by WIlliam Jacobson (Cornell)
- Legal Insurrection: Questioner Initially Denied IRS Q&A Was Set Up, by William Jacobson (Cornell)
- Mother Jones: Blame Congress For the IRS-Tea Party Mess
- National Review: Gotta Be a Special Counsel: Only Way to Clean Up the IRS Rat’s Nest
- National Review: Hearing Out the IRS: Congress Is Far From Satisfied
- New York Times: Republicans Expand IRS Inquiry, With Eye on White House
- New York Times DealBook: Where the IRS Investigation May Go From Here, by Peter J. Henning (Wayne State)
- New York Times FiveThirtyEight Blog: New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking, by Nate Silver
- Real Clear Politics: Benghazi and IRS Targeting: Politics by Other Means, by Michael Barone
- Real Clear Politics: GOP Congressman Receives Standing Ovation After He Rips IRS Commissioner
- Tax Analysts Blog: Lois Lerner Must Resign, by David Cay Johnston (Syracuse)
- Tax Analysts Blog: Scandal, Scandal, Scandal, by Christopher Bergin (Tax Analysts)
- Wall Street Journal editorial: Merely a Tax Misunderstanding: IRS Agents Just Wanted to be 'More Efficient'
- Wall Street Journal: At Hearing, the Venting Is Bipartisan
- Wall Street Journal: Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
- Wall Street Journal: IRS Timeline: What We Know So Far
- Wall Street Journal: President Asterisk: Why the Obama IRS Scandal may be Worse Than "a Cancer on the Presidency"
- Washington Examiner: Congressman: IRS Asked Pro-life Group About 'the Content of Their Prayers'
- Washington Examiner: IRS Tax Exemption/ObamaCare Exec Got $103,390 in Bonuses; Did Obama OK Them?
- Washington Post op-ed: An ‘Unthinkable’ IRS Scandal? More Like Unavoidable, by Joseph J. Thorndike (Tax Analysts)
- Washington Post: At Cincinnati IRS Office, Surprise Over Claims of Partisan Villainy
- Washington Post: House Panel Launches Inquiries Into IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups
- Washington Post: IRS Scandal: Peggy Noonan vs. Nate Silver
- Washington Post: IRS Stalled Conservative Groups, But Gave Speedy Approval to Obama Foundation
- Washington Post: Lawyer Says IRS Question Was Planted
- Washington Post: The 10 Most Bizarre Things About the IRS Scandal
- Washington Post: The IRS’s Unreasonable 501(c)4 Requests
- Washington Times editorial: Rotten Fish at the IRS
- Weekly Standard: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
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)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs-1.html
Comments
I do not know why anyone pays attention to this. It is not new, since the 60s in my time. No one will get fired. Nothing will change. It is a form of verbal self abuse. Obama will still be viewed as a great President no matter what happens in the White House. Reading, writing thinking about this is a waste of time.
Posted by: Ray | May 18, 2013 4:07:08 PM
They say that the IRS asked questions about all the tax exempt organization applications and Nate Silver says the IRS audited Dems and Republicans. It reminds of the old stories about the questions at the polls in the South which were intended to disqualify black voters - that they had to recite the obscure sections by heart or they had to interpret some section to the satisfaction of the poll watcher. Or spell Chrysanthemum
Posted by: K | May 18, 2013 12:37:15 PM
Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers." -- "Our Heavenly Father, please let this nightmare end soon and please change the hearts of those within the IRS to approve our application and to come to accept you."
Posted by: Woody | May 18, 2013 9:33:46 PM