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IRS and Political Speech: The Tax Collection Agency Should Not Police Speech

January 1, 2018  •  By IFS Staff  •    •  

Groups seeking tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization must apply to the IRS to obtain this classification. Advocacy nonprofits, designated by a 501(c)(4) status, are one such classification of tax-exempt organizations that are permitted to engage in some political activities, so long as the majority of their activities are not political. As the Tea Party movement gained its footing in…

Reason: Remy: What are the Chances? (An IRS Love Song)

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July 29, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

Remy weighs the odds of finding true love and, like a well-timed IRS hard drive failure, finds a higher power at work. 

Overwhelmingly Opposed: An Analysis of Public and 955 Organization, Expert, and Public Official Comments on the IRS’s 501(c)(4) Rulemaking

July 21, 2014   •  By Matt Nese   •  ,

Beginning in March of 2010, the Internal Revenue Service began scrutinizing groups applying for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status using politically biased criteria.1 Those groups with names ...

What Investigation? (Video)

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July 18, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

How hard has the Justice Department investigated the IRS targeting of conservative-leaning nonprofits? Hard enough to find out from the press that Lois Lerner’s ...

IRS Scandal: Huffington Post Not Aware that People Communicated Before Email

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June 26, 2014   •  By Brad Smith   •  

Rep. Darrell Issa has issued a subpoena to the Federal Election Commission for all “communications sent or received from Lois G. Lerner” since January ...

“Voxsplaining” the IRS Scandal

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June 24, 2014   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

The enlightened ones at Vox deemed the IRS scandal worthy of their peculiar brand of explanation last week in a piece titled “The IRS ...

Reaction Round-Up: Lois Lerner’s “Lost” Emails

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June 16, 2014   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

Investigators and onlookers of the IRS targeting scandal have long expected to find answers to their questions in the emails of Lois Lerner, former ...

Senate Ethics Complaint Filed by Center for Competitive Politics

June 2, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

The Center for Competitive Politics (the “Center”) respectfully requests that the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics undertake an investigation of Senators Carl ...

Application for section 501(c)(4) status by Crossroads GPS

May 21, 2014   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  ,

On May 6, Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) wrote you “to urge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to deny tax exempt ...

10% of Tea Party Donors Subject to IRS Audits

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May 8, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

The Washington Times published an article about how almost 10% of tea party donors were subject to IRS audits, well above the national average of around ...

Christian Adams, the Election Law Listserv, and Private Speech

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April 22, 2014   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  

Christian Adams, who publishes the Rule of Law blog at PJ Media, created something of a dustup last week when he blasted Lois Lerner, ...

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