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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) logo. This is a partial list of allegations of misuse of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which traces its roots to the creation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1862. Examples of political profiling controversies include cases in which IRS employees or government officials have ...
Consequently, liberal reactions to the controversy have shifted considerably from the initial condemnation and calls for investigation [108] to descriptions of the controversy as the "Vanishing I.R.S. Scandal," [109] and suggestions that subsequent revelations represent a "nail in the [controversy's] coffin" [110] and the controversy's "fizzl ...
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Tax controversy is an area of legal practice involving tax disputes between tax collection entities such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and taxpayers, sometimes as the result of an audit.
IRS location sign at Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. The IRS originates from the commissioner of internal revenue, a federal office created in 1862 to assess the nation's first income tax to fund the American Civil War. The temporary measure funded over a fifth of the Union's war expenses before being allowed to expire a decade later.
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).
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 ...
A "Nationwide Chicago Tea Party" protest was coordinated across more than 40 different cities for February 27, 2009, establishing the first national modern Tea Party protest. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] The movement has been supported nationally by at least 12 prominent individuals and their associated organizations. [ 129 ]