Politics
By Casey Harper (The Heart Sq.)
The Republican-led Home Oversight Committee is trying into allegations that the IRS is selectively not imposing its tax-exempt guidelines towards liberal nonprofits.
With new allegations of political bias, Home Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has launched an investigation into the IRS requesting interviews, communications information and coaching paperwork, amongst different issues, as a part of the inquiry.
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Comer mentioned the IRS “may be withholding enforcement” of federal guidelines stopping liberal nonprofits from violating 501(c)3 guidelines that stop political lobbying. He despatched a letter to the IRS elevating that concern.
“Tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and implementing regulations requires that exempted entities are ‘operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational’ and related purposes,” the letter mentioned, including that many of those teams “seem to view their charitable work as indistinguishable from their substantial lobbying pursuits.”
In the meantime, Comer factors out, the IRS has a historical past of imposing its guidelines towards conservative teams.
Former IRS head Lois Lerner infamously focused tea occasion and different conservative teams throughout her time within the Obama administration. A Home Oversight Committee overview of that scandal years in the past discovered that the IRS “systematically scrutinized and delayed conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.”
Comer’s letter factors to at least one group particularly, One Honest Wage, a bunch advocating to boost the minimal wage.
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“According to a statement of work on their website, the organization is “currently leading the 25 by 250 Campaign, through which One Fair Wage is moving legislation and ballot measures in 25 states…,” the letter mentioned. “In civil litigation initiated by One Honest Wage, Inc., final yr, the entity represented on a number of events {that a} vital exercise of the group, if not its main objective, contains lobbying.
IRS head David Werfel is anticipated to testify earlier than Congress Thursday. The company has taken criticism in recent times for vital backlogs and leaking taxpayers’ data in addition to allegations of bias towards conservatives.
“We are concerned that IRS may now be engaged in withholding legitimate enforcement efforts as they pertain to activist groups hiding behind their non-profit statuses,” Comer’s letter mentioned.
Syndicated with permission from The Heart Sq..