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Computer crash update – IRS letter to Congress re: Lerner emails

By Steve McGough / June 17, 2014 /

An important update to yesterday’s post on the Lois Lerner email situation. The full letter sent to the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Finance who requested documents and emails from the IRS concerning the application process for tax exempt organizations is now available. PLEASE read this post and share it with everyone…

IRS managers and employees living large at government conferences

By Steve McGough / June 2, 2013 /

Public service once meant something quite a bit different than it does today. Sure, the benefits have been very good to great for government employees for decades, but the reports we hear from agencies like the GSA and IRS sound like parties from the Internet tech boom of the 1990s.

Does it really matter who the Top 1% are and how much they make?

By Steve McGough / October 27, 2011 /

For some, it makes a big difference. I’ve been spitting out tax statistics that people have been shrugging off for years, but I had a revelation earlier today. It does not matter. It’s just another Symptom of the Disease.

Audit Congress

By Jim Vicevich / February 16, 2009 /

Well you knew it had to happen sooner or later. Some of you have already suggested it and I can’t say its a bad idea. Have you paid your taxes lately? If you said “yes” then you are in good company.  Millions of Americans not only struggle with the duty of following a convoluted tax code,…

IRS corruption: New Lerner emails and a scandal overview

By Steve McGough / September 13, 2013 /

The IRS is supposed to simply implement the tax law as written and of course investigate while enforcing the tax code. Similar to law enforcement activity, the IRS can’t just change the ‘probable cause’ rules of investigation on a case-by-case basis. The IRS – at the highest level – outright targeted TEA Party groups because…

Say what, Mr. President?

By SoundOffSister / August 20, 2013 /

Today, the President honored the undefeated 1972 football Dolphins in the White House.

IRS sends $46 million in refunds to 24,000 at one address

By Steve McGough / June 27, 2013 /

And this is the organization that will be in charge of the Obamacare mandates. Remember the Inspector General audit pointing out the targeting of TEA Party groups when it came to IRS tax-exempt approvals? We also have another audit – again published last summer and not released to the media prior to the election –…

IRS extravagance: What difference at this point does it make?

By Steve McGough / June 27, 2013 /

I’ve been fighting – what seems to be an ever-long battle – to limit the scope of the federal government to Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The state and commonwealth governments have the power – as determined by their state legislatures – to provide funding and support for all sorts of programs if the…

IRS not answering Senate Finance Committee questions

By Steve McGough / May 31, 2013 /

The IRS thinks it’s OK to ask conservative and libertarian groups hundreds of questions, yet they ignore Senate Finance Committee questions posed concerning how the department put into place policies targeting groups including local TEA Party organizations.

Tax-Exempt Media Matters for America illegally coordinates with Congress (Update)

By Steve McGough / January 26, 2012 /

We’ve known Media Matters for America is hiding behind its tax-exempt, non-partisan 501(c)(3) status, but it’s time the IRS calls them out and pull their tax-exempt approval.