Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
IRS Granted One Tax Exemption For a Conservative Group in Three Years
A few days ago, I wrote about the Senate Finance Committee report, which revealed that ten groups have yet to receive tax exempt approval -- some waiting as long as five years. ATR had also delved into that report, and found only one conservative group actually...
Taxpayer Advocate Report: Some Say Filing Season Was “Worst In Memory”
Every summer, the Taxpayer Advocate releases one of two annual reports to Congress. The summer report is the "Annual Objectives Report" which seeks to identify and work on priority issues for the upcoming Fiscal Year. The Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, had done a good...
Some Groups Still Remain Unapproved By the IRS
There are still ten tea party groups which haven't received approval by the IRS -- years after having applied for tax-exempt status. Some applications have been delayed five years by now. All in all, 547 applications were “centralized,” for extraordinary scrutiny....
Social Security Administration Overpaid Millions in Disability Benefits
Washington Free Beacon had a sobering article about the lack of fiduciary responsibility in the Social Security Administration. A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that for 5 years (FY2009-FY2013), disability payments totaling $371.5 million...
Ezekiel Emanuel is No Expert
It really irritates me that someone who has been incredibly wrong on the Obamacare issue can still be taken seriously anymore. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare and Rahm Emanuel’s brother, has argued firmly for years that Obamacare will revolutionize...
IRS Used Messaging Service To Avoid Email Archiving
There's not much more to say that what ATR lays out. In a nutshell, many IRS employees used an interoffice messaging chat system to communicate with one another, instead of email, because there was no archiving system turned on for that mode of communication --...