Friday, May 31, 2013
The IRS Scandal, Day 22
- Bloomberg: Four IRS Employees Set to Be Interviewed in Congressional Probe
- CBS News: House Investigators to Question Cincinnati IRS Employees
- Daily Beast: Boy, the Head of the IRS Went to the White House a Lot, by Megan McArdle
- Daily Caller op-ed: The IRS Targeting Was Wrong, Even If Some of the Targeted Groups Did Break Law, by Jim Huffman
- The Hill: House Questioning IRS Staffers in Ohio
- The Hill: WWJD About the IRS?
- Human Events: IRS Commish Had a Close Relationship With White House
- Investor's Business Daily: 157 Shulman WH Visits: IRS Fish Rots From the Head
- L.A. Times: The Right Way to Investigate the IRS
- McClatchy: IRS May Have Targeted Conservatives More Broadly
- Dick Morris: Full Dimensions of IRS Scandal Emerge
- New York Post: Chief of IRS During Targeting of Tea Party Visited White House 157 Times
- Bill O'Reilly: Is There Now a Smoking Gun in the IRS Scandal?
- Politico: Cincinnati IRS to Face House Panels
- Reuters: Embattled IRS Staff Remain in Jobs Despite U.S. Tax Review Scandal
- Time: One Nation, Tax Exempt
- U.S. News & World Report: Economic Intelligence A Big IRS Job and Fewer People to Do It
- U.S. News & World Report: Lois Lerner: Career Government Employee Under Fire
- U.S. News & World Report: One-Third of Tax-Exempt Groups Scrutinized by IRS Were Not Conservative
- USA Today op-ed: IRS Commits Political Sabotage, by John Eastman
- Wall Street Journal op-ed: An Antidote to Cynicism Poisoning: Restoring Public Faith Will Require a Full Investigation of the IRS's Politicization, by Peggy Noonan
- Wall Street Journal: A Tax-Exempt IRS Primer: Breaking Down the Liberal Excuse for Selective Tax Enforcement
- Washington Examiner: Tea Party Groups Sue IRS, Claim Targeting Was Widespread
- Washington Monthly: Lois Lerner: Totalitarian Menace
- Washington Post: White House: No Special Prosecutor for IRS Scandal
- Washington Post: Who Handles Hot Potatoes Like the IRS Probe? A Look at 4 Types of Washington Investigations
- Weekly Standard: Goolsbee's Mysterious Tweet About the Koch Brothers' Taxes
- Weekly Standard: 'Pro-Israel Groups Felt Wrath of Obama IRS'
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)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 16 (May 25, 2013)
- Jason Jones on the IRS Scandal (May 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 17 (May 26, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 18 (May 27, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 19 (May 28, 2013)
- The IRS Scandel, Day 20 (May 29, 2013)
- The Impact of the IRS Scandal on Tax Reform (May 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 21 (May 30, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/05/the-irs-7.html
I notice the LA Times has an article on the right way to investigate the IRS. I would suggest the real "right way" would be to use exactly the same technique the IRS uses when investigating someone they suspect of tax evasion, i.e. walk right in unanounced during business hours, confiscate all the records and computer hard drives of the people in question, and hold them in complete secrecy for six months while forcing the defendents to come in and answer questions without a lawyer and under the threat of imprisonment if they do not comply.
Sounds about fair. Sauce for the goose...
Posted by: Georg Felis | May 31, 2013 8:59:45 AM