Paul L. Caron
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

The IRS Scandal, Day 425

IRS Logo 2New York Post editorial:  Audit the IRS!:

True the Vote has an idea that is the fantasy of every taxpayer who’s ever found himself sitting opposite an imperious tax collector: Audit the IRS.

On Thursday, the IRS will have to persuade federal Judge Reggie Walton why this shouldn’t happen.

True the Vote calls itself “the nation’s largest nonpartisan, voters’ rights and election integrity organization.” It is one of the conservative outfits whose application for nonprofit status was targeted by IRS authorities. And in its motion asking for an outside specialist in data recovery to be permitted to conduct a forensic audit into the lost Lois Lerner e-mails, True the Vote makes an eminently reasonable case:

“Even if the ill-timed hard drive ‘crash’ was truly an accident, and even if the IRS genuinely believes that the e-mails are ‘unrecoverable,’ the circumstances of the spoliation at issue cry out for a second opinion,” reads the motion.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/07/the--1.html

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