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Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of students it trained
Daily Mail ^ | 05/15/2013 | By DAVID MARTOSKO

Posted on 05/15/2013 7:51:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.

'Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,' the IRS demanded. 'Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.'

That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey. founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.

'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' he asked MailOnline.

It's 'an impossible question to answer fully and truthfully,' he said, 'without disclosing the names of anyone I ever taught, or would ever teach, including students.'

Like the leaders of many tea party-affiliated groups whose tax-exemption applications have become the subject of angry complaints, Kookogey called the IRS's inquisition an overreach, 'especially considering that my organization mentors high school and college students.' It 'should send chills through your spine,' he told MailOnline, 'that the government would ask me to identify those I teach, and to provide details of what I teach them.'

The 13-month delay, while burdensome, was far shorter than those some other groups endured. According to a report released late Tuesday by the IRS's Office of Inspector General, the average delay at one point was 574 days.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoirs; conservatism; duplicate; irs; linchpinsofliberty
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To: SeekAndFind
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21 posted on 05/15/2013 8:16:36 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: Jack Hammer

Thought the exact same thing. The current regime can’t outright “disappear” you, so they’ll hit you where it really hurts, in the wallet. Don’t go along with the regime? They’ll ruin you financially, and make you a refugee in your own country. Oh, and they’ll make you a criminal by violating some obscure tax code, which redefines the concept of “debtor’s prison”, because only the feds can imprison you for not paying taxes owed to them, regardless of the error. You see where this is going, right?


22 posted on 05/15/2013 8:22:43 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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23 posted on 05/15/2013 8:23:19 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: factoryrat

You’re exactly right.

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24 posted on 05/15/2013 8:25:34 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Gaffer; All
You average IRS employee is a low-information voter who just wants a paycheck for 8hrs a day and has had it drilled into from day one that improper use of their position means loss of job and potential jail time:

http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/26009624.html

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F2C8C532AF137EB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/IRS-Employee-Charged-Stealing-Tax-Refunds-56747-1.html

The people involved in this were hand picked Dem operatives.

25 posted on 05/15/2013 8:56:29 AM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: gura
Of course you realize it is these chosen functionaries are the ones that conducted and directed the miscarriage. They are the ones of whom I am speaking. As for these low-level average employee, if it can be shown they ‘even touched anything relating to this’ they should be summarily fired. I don't care how ‘innocently’ stupid they are.
26 posted on 05/15/2013 8:59:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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27 posted on 05/17/2013 12:19:24 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Eagle Forum has already sent out a news letter on it. Hasn’t made the news here in the state yet. Not that the 0 bought msm would report it.


28 posted on 05/17/2013 4:55:55 AM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/anti-obama-filmmaker-charges-harassment-by-irs/

No telling how deep this IRS stuff really goes and it dates back to the Clinton adm. When Hillary had the in with IRS.
I was asked topass this link around,anyone who can,much appreciated.


29 posted on 05/17/2013 5:44:47 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: SeekAndFind
the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.

When this crap happened the thing to do is notify your congress person and work your way up the chain of command fromirs to chaicago thugocracy to where all this BS starts.Its not easy and you have to be a pit bull about it buts its doable.

The way to do it is to raise hell and getlots of press along the way,it can be done.

30 posted on 05/17/2013 5:57:59 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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