NAACP Will Challenge the IRS Threat In Federal Court (evoke the NAACP's tax-exempt status because.)

U.S. Newswire ^

[Sub-Driver]

NAACP Will Challenge the IRS Threat In Federal Court

3/30/2006 6:33:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: John C. White of the NAACP, 410-580-5125; Web: http://www.naacp.org

BALTIMORE, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The NAACP announced today that it is taking steps to challenge the IRS's examination of the organization in federal court later this year.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced today that it is taking steps to challenge in federal court the Internal Revenue Service's threat to revoke the NAACP's tax-exempt status because its Chairman, Julian Bond, criticized the Bush administration's policies in a speech in 2004.

NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said: "We remain concerned that the IRS's decision to audit the NAACP, particularly the timing of the commencement of this audit, was motivated by politics rather than grounded in the federal tax law. Frankly, the way the case has been handled by the IRS to date, including dragging its feet on several outstanding Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, it seems that the government's strategy is to delay and withhold information in the hope that we'll concede. Well, the NAACP doesn't give up so easily. We must defend the principles at stake and demand better treatment on behalf of the countless organizations in our sector that need clear guidance in this area."

As a protective measure, the NAACP filed a form with the IRS in September (Form 4720) to report and pay the estimated amount of tax related to Bond's speech as if it had constituted campaign intervention. Bond made his remarks during the 2004 NAACP Convention in Philadelphia. The NAACP estimates that it spent a total of $176.48 to disseminate the speech - including the cost of photocopying, the costs associated with the posting of and the proportionate share of the costs

[Sub-Driver]

let's see the books....

[jmaroneps37]

Open the books you liberal phonies.

[kingu]

I wonder when the NAACP was last audited...

In any event, the more shouting they do about something that reasonable people might accept, the more likely it is that the IRS has something real to examine. There's no way that the NAACP would admit the possibility of guilt without there being something bigger underneath.

[Amalie]

This is a trick out of the Clintoon crooks days - with everything else that is screwed up right now, I sincerely hope there is NO politics motivating the audit. Regardless, unfortunately, the NAACP will play this out in the public theater, no doubt. I would like to know what data they want to see...

[Awestruck]

While I'm not overly fond of the IRS, they do occasionally get something right.. this is one of those times..

[RockinRight]

I think this may be the only time in history that I support the IRS on something!

[topher]

Sounds like someone is playing the race card because they are incompetent...

[Inwoodian]

Next comes all the black churches where liberal Dems routinely campaign from the pulpit. In my dreams.