IRS Target Conservative Groups

The IRS, which is also referred to as the most powerful collection agency in the world. The only agency where they can garnish your wages or your bank accounts without a court order. An agency, where they have little to any judicial oversight when it comes to their ways of collections and audits.

For most of us, we only have to deal with the IRS but once a year. For some, which are mostly businesses, they get to have their IRS does four times a year. I have been lucky and I mostly get a refund and usually do not owe the IRS when I file my yearly taxes. I also have had the luck of never been “flagged” for audits.

In 2011, many conservative groups, which put “conservative”, patriot” Tea Party” or other types of conservative names in their tax exempt status were audited. Not just a couple mind you, 100+ groups were wrongfully targeted for audits. The IRS has admitted that they were wrong and are trying to pin it on some “low level” employees in their Cincinnati office.

Now, I do not know about you, but this story doesn't sound right to me. Shortly after “tea Party” members help gain control the House for the Republicans, a small group of rogue agents starting audits on over 100 organizations filing for exempt status that used “Tea Party”, Patriot”, “Conservative” were flagged and audited.

Funny, no “Progressive” or “Liberal” organizations were flagged from that office. Funny how that works.

I am not saying who made the decision, but I seriously doubt they were some level employees gone rogue, out of an office in Cincinnati Ohio.

Now they are caught they are trying to use that excuse since they got caught with their pants down and now are trying to blame some low level employees. You would think if a large number of filings were being flagged out of one office, the higher level employees would have noticed and checked into it.