Here’s Your Crow; Cold And Bloody
By Mitch Berg
Court rules that the IRS acted in bad faith, targeted Tea Party groups:
A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.
The judges ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted so that a class-action lawsuit, filed by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots, can proceed. The judges also accused the Justice Departmentlawyers, who are representing the IRS in the case, of acting in bad faith — compounding the initial targeting — by fighting the disclosure.
My greatest dream is to see those responsible frog-walked into a paddy wagon. Like the “Clinton Indictment”, it’ll never happen – but hope is what it’s all about.
March 24th, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Mitch: we share the same dream on this one. It was interesting at the height of the tea party movements here in Minnesota, I found my name on a political website that tracked donors to Scott Walker and asked people to identify who we were. My name was also connected to the tea party as per my donations. Within a few months I received a notice of audit from the state of MN. Then within another 6 months, the IRS sent me a notice. I had never been audited by either before (or after). The IRS auditor fell all over himself saying that really, really, really, this was random, really. Uh huh, sure. Methinks thou dost protest too much. In both cases the auditors ended up sending me a small check in overpaid taxes.
March 25th, 2016 at 7:13 am
Passout76
I got on the IRS audit list in the late 80s (probably due to Home Office) and I learned at the first audit that not claiming every deduction,especially something well documented and non-controversial, can come in real handy. So I made it a point to “always leave something on the table”. I was audited twice more in the next 5 years and each time they had to issue me checks. After that I never heard from them.