Paul L. Caron
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

The IRS Scandal, Day 1129

IRS Logo 2Omaha World-Herald editorial, IRS Stonewalling:

The Internal Revenue Service has, at long last, made public a list of 426 politically conservative organizations targeted by its tax-exempt division.

It took a lawsuit and three long years to pry all of the information into public view. That’s outrageous. But then, foot-dragging and obfuscation have been the agency’s tactics from the start of this sorry affair.

The official at its center, Lois Lerner, took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment when called to answer questions from Congress. Then the IRS claimed that a crash of Lerner’s computer made it “impossible” to produce her emails — until 30,000 were recovered by a Treasury Department inspector general.

All of this does nothing to reassure taxpayers of the agency’s needed fairness. ...

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/06/the-irs-scandal-day-1128.html

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