Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner(C) is seated before testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee May 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is investigating allegations that the IRS targeted conservative non-profit organizations with the words 'tea party' and 'constitution' in their names for additional scrutiny. Lerner, who headed the division that oversees exempt organizations, plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer questions. Others testifying L-R are: J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Douglas Shulman, Former Commissioner, Former Commissioner,Internal Revenue Service and Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Treasury.
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The recent disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups filing for tax exempt status undermines Americans' trust that their government will enforce the law blindly, without concern about race, religion, creed, or political belief
We are writing to urge you to suspend immediately Lois Lerner from her office as Director of the Office of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
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Crook: IRS foul-up shows how bad laws breed good scandals
to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service . Tenderness toward that agency isn't my default position. I'm a British expat living in the United States, with retirement savings locked up in Britain and other cross-border entanglements Read more »
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Lois Lerner to stay mum for House hearing on IRS
House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service 's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke her constitutional right to not answer questions Read more »
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Ex-IRS chief Douglas Shulman: Can't say how targeting happened
man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.Douglas Shulman, Read more »
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Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller: Sorry for 'mistakes' and 'poor service'
and the American public deserve better. Partisanship and even the perception of partisanship have no place at the Internal Revenue Service ."At a hearing that saw lawmakers from both parties harshly criticize his agency, Miller conceded that "foolish mistakes Read more »
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Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting
was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service , even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller had been briefed on the matter.Miller was first informed on May, 3, 2012, that applications for tax-exempt status Read more »
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Why Americans love the IRS
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IRS unfairly target you? Sen. Hatch wants to know about it
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Opinion: Obama's woes flow out of big government philosophy
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IRS’s Lerner being replaced on acting basis: Bloomberg (Video)
sources selected by our local editors. Delivered weekday mornings. May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Lois Lerner, the mid-level Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the controversy over scrutiny of small-government groups seeking tax-exempt status, is being 5/23/13 from Business Journal of Milwaukee Read more »
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Fleming bill would suspend temporarily IRS audit authority
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