IRS to propose specific limits on nonprofits’ political activities

The Washington Post ^ | June 18, 2014 | Josh Hicks

[Timber Rattler]

The Internal Revenue Service will propose new guidelines next year that would cap the amount of political activity allowed for tax-exempt advocacy groups, according to the agency’s commissioner.

The new plan, the agency’s second attempt at writing guidelines for so-called social welfare groups, could be a game-changer for organizations such as Americans for Prosperity, part of a conservative network supported by Charles and David Koch, and the League of Conservation Voters, a group on the left.

Campaign-finance watchdogs have complained that a growing number of nonprofits are using “dark money” to influence elections, since the existing 501(c)(4) rules allow them to collect unlimited financial contributions without disclosing their donors. Stricter guidelines could make the groups less attractive to donors.

The IRS’s latest plan would address questions left unanswered from the controversial draft guidelines that it unveiled in November. The initial proposal focused on defining political activity, leaving aside matters such as how much activity would be allowed.

The Center for Public Integrity first reported the latest IRS strategy Wednesday, citing an interview with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Koskinen said he expects a new draft of the 501(c)(4) regulations by early 2015.

[Timber Rattler]

Remember those hated proposed guidelines from this past winter?

IRS backtracks on 501(c)4 rule after flood of negative comments

Well, they're back....

[rarestia]

I can’t believe the American people are allowing the government to silence them. This is a de facto revocation of a large portion of the 1st Amendment.

Barack Obama has the same number of letters in his name as Adolf Hitler. This is not by coincidence.

[molson209]

Will only apply to Non Democrat Party Groups

[BenLurkin]

To paraphrase Ernest Hollingsworth. “Theahs too much free speech ‘n goin’ on.”

[kidd]

In direct defiance of a SCOTUS ruling.

The administartion has effectively neutered Congress.
Now it is trying to neuter the courts.

[coloradan]

The purpose of the IRS should be to raise revenue and not micromanage the speech of certain groups. Because it is unable to perform its function correctly, it should be abolished. (To say nothing of its penchant for abuse.) It’s time for a consumption tax to completely replace the present tax system.

[unixfox]

One day. Soon. The home addresses of everybody that works for this criminal organization will be exposed.

Not a tear will be shed.

F U B O!

[GeronL]

of course

[GeronL]

unelected bureaucrats and judges making law is lawlessness

[MrB]

Indeed, selectively enforced of course.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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So now they insist that churches teach what they want them to teach which is an abomination to God.


Yep ... and some day coming to all IRS 501-C3 tax-exempt churches in America.

Don't blame me ... I'm just the messenger.

Questions ?

Muster up the courage to do the free IRS download of "Pamplet P1828" which specifies the legal details of your tax-exempt church's sertitude to it's U.S. Government Masters.

Heck, I'll even do you the favor of providing the internet link:

IRS Legal Obligations of Tax-Exempt Christian Churches and Pastors" - (click)












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[Iron Munro]

Does anyone with a brain believe, even for an Obama nanosecond, that such a rule will be enforced against liberal organizations?

[VerySadAmerican]

So, that means the NAACP will have to curtail it’s advocacy. As well as Rainbow Push, ACORN (or whatever they call themselves now) and Al Sharpton. /s

[Hotlanta Mike]

‘Darrell Issa Calls On White House Attorney to Testify On IRS Email Scandal’

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa requested the testimony of White House Counsel’s Office lawyer Jennifer O’Connor at next Tuesday’s hearing on the IRS lost emails scandal.

Issa wrote a letter to O’Connor, who worked at the IRS in the first months of its conservative targeting scandal in 2013 and was promoted to the White House earlier this year, asking her to appear alongside IRS commissioner John Koskinen at Tuesday’s Oversight hearing. Issa made clear that he thinks O’Connor “knew or should have known” that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails were missing.

The IRS claimed that it lost 24,000 of Lerner’s emails to and from other Obama administration agencies and the White House from 2009 to 2011, in addition to emails from six other IRS staffers. The emails are expected to be able to shed light on the IRS conservative targeting scandal that has plagued the Obama administration for more than a year.

“From May 2013 until November 2013, you served in a career position at the IRS as the Counselor to the Commissioner, with the primary task of ‘navigat[ing] the scandal over [the IRS’s] reviews of conservative organizations,’” Issa wrote.

“In this position, you had a direct and substantial role in the IRS’ response to congressional requests for documents, including documents sent or received by Ms. Lerner,” Issa wrote. “In fact, IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins, when asked who was supervising the collection of, ‘documents relating to the committee’s requests for material,’ responded ‘Tom Kane and Jennifer [O’Connor] are the two I would identify as the key supervisors.’”

“Given your prominent role in supervising the IRS’s document review and production processes, you likely knew or should have known that the IRS was missing a portion of e-mails sent or received by Ms. Lerner responsive to the Committee’s subpoena,” Issa wrote.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/19/darrell-issa-calls-on-white-house-attorney-to-testify-on-irs-email-scandal/

[ncfool]

Sander Levin is a big putz! a tool of the left.....