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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.
This included targeting conservative and liberal groups, and led to both political and public condemnation of the agency, and triggered multiple investigations. Jay Sekulow , who represented 16 Tea Party groups in the courts in this case, [ 1 ] said that "This admission by the IRS represents a significant victory for free speech and freedom of ...
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 ...
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.
The resolution H.Res. 565, "Calling on Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to appoint a special counsel to investigate the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups by the Internal Revenue Service," was passed by the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. [1]
(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 ...
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 ...