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Shulman told the committee that the agency was not targeting conservative groups. [128] After Shulman denied that the IRS was unfairly targeting conservative groups, the congressional committee ended the 2012 phase of the investigation. [citation needed] Shulman resigned his post in late 2012, before the controversy came to light. [129]
Purported IRS targeting of conservative groups under President Barack Obama led to anti-IRS protests by the Tea Party. In May 2013, the IRS admitted it had subjected conservative political groups to closer scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status based on particular keywords in their names.
Conservatives claimed the IRS targeted them, while a 2017 Treasury report on the controversy found that groups on both sides of the political spectrum had faced scrutiny.
Linchpins of Liberty v. United States (1:13-cv-00777) is a case decided in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in which the IRS agreed to a formal apology to all plaintiffs of the case. The IRS targeting groups based on a political viewpoint received widespread national attention. [1] [2]
Conservatives have long claimed the IRS targeted the tax-exempt status of political groups during the Obama administration, while a 2017 Treasury report on the controversy found that groups on ...
A powerful House panel asked the IRS Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of nine nonprofits that sowed “chaos and discord” during anti-Israel protests on college campuses, according to ...
Lois Gail Lerner (born October 12, 1950) is an American attorney and former United States federal civil service employee. Lerner became director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2005, and subsequently became the central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting controversy in the targeting of politically aligned groups, either denying them tax-exempt status ...
(The Center Square) – The CEO of Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute and leaders from conservative groups across the country wrote to the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee asking ...