GAO: 'Americans Still Vulnerable to IRS Audits Over Personal Beliefs'

foxbusiness.com ^ | July 23, 2015 | Elizabeth MacDonald

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A House Oversight subcommittee hearing today will provide more pushback to President Barack Obama’s claim to the Daily Show that there was no IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits.

The hearing, which will take testimony from IRS commissioner John Koskinen, will zoom in on a new report from the Government Accountability Office that will deliver this bombshell: The GAO now says that IRS political “targeting is indeed possible in the audit process” for nonprofits, largely due to poor agency oversight and controls.

“Unfortunately, the IRS has not taken sufficient steps to prevent targeting Americans based on their personal beliefs,” the GAO says.

Specifically, The GAO found that “control deficiencies” do “increase the risk” that the IRS nonprofit unit “could select organizations for examinations in an unfair manner—for example, based on an organization’s religious, educational, political or other views.”

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Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, says it has obtained Freedom of Information Act filings that show IRS workers were using donor lists from conservative nonprofit groups to target people for audit.

How Stalinesque of them.

And how did it affect the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Is this supposed to be NO BIG DEAL???

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Apparently so, as we sure don’t hear anything about it on the alphabet channels.

[I want the USA back]

That’s right, and it’s because the American public didn’t demand 0bama resign.

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(sputtering) Once Koskinen and Lerner are cuffed & frog-marched off, well, all this IRS criminality and malfeasance ......