Progressive groups were so victimized that none of them came forward to complain that their applications were being delayed.
Who knows though, maybe the FBI will interview these progressive groups as part of their investigation. Or maybe they’ll interview SOMEONE as part of the investigation. Eventually.
Which means unions and the Sierra Club and the ACLU should not be tax exempt, right? And while we’re at it, the NY Times, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Nation should also not be tax exempt.
Or alternatively, rather than having the government make value judgments which they have abundantly proven they cannot make, how about we just make all non-profit advocacy groups tax exempt? Heck, that way we can fire the whole division in charge of that at the IRS and don’t even have to worry about the scandal anymore.
None of the conservative groups did, either. The whole thing came out because of an internal investigation.
Labor organizations are specifically exempt under 501©(5).
I have no problem with the ACLU or Sierra Club losing their 501©(4) status.
I was not aware that the NY Times, Fox, etc. were tax exempt. Last I checked, they were profit-making corporations.
The truth came out because of an internal investigation(part of it, anyway). Tea Party groups were bitching for two years, and their representatives were contacting the IRS to get answers and weren’t getting any.
This story comes out of the IRS, and it’s excuse-making. IT’s already been reported that progressive groups sailed through the process and the three that didn’t it was because they were likely mistaken for conservative groups. There was targeting, that’s been proven by their own investigation, and it did come from Washington which is why five DC IRS managers have been put on leave preparatory for canning their asses and zero Cincinnati employees have been fired or put on leave.
All that remains now is to see what the so far imaginary FBI investigation turns up. And of course the COngressional investigations.
Oops. You caught me in a stupid on the last one.
It’s been reported incorrectly, yes. Darrell Issa only had evidence of conservative targeting because that was all he had asked the IRS to produce. There’s a thread going on about it right now.