House Republicans find 10% of tea party donors audited by IRS

Washington Times ^ | 5-7-2014 | Stephen Dinan

[smoothsailing]

House Republicans find 10% of tea party donors audited by IRS

Tells commissioner to come clean

By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times - Updated: 10:10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Despite assurances to the contrary, the IRS didn’t destroy all of the donor lists scooped up in its tea party targeting — and a check of those lists reveals that the tax agency audited 10 percent of those donors, much higher than the audit rate for average Americans, House Republicans revealed Wednesday.

Republicans argue that the Internal Revenue Service still hasn’t come clean about the full extent of its targeting, which swept up dozens of conservative groups.

“The committee uncovered new information indicating that after groups provided the information to the IRS, nearly one in 10 donors were subject to audit,” Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., Louisiana Republican and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee’s oversight panel, told IRS Commissioner John Koskinen at a hearing Wednesday.

“The abuse of discretion and audit selection must be identified and stopped,” he said.

Mr. Koskinen didn’t specifically address the accusations during the hearing, and the IRS didn’t respond to a request for comment late Wednesday evening.

The revelation was made on the same day that the House voted on a nonbinding resolution asking the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS targeting...

[OldNavyVet]

Please note that this action is against "Tea Party" contributors, and ... Given the way the Rupublican elite has treated Sarah Palin, I'd say that many existing congressional Republicans are essentially FOR persectuion of Tea Party suppporters.

So, I'd also say ... "Bring it on, baby."

[plain talk]

Either flat or sales tax would be better than what we have. But you say a flat tax still allows DC to set the rate. So does a sales tax BTW. DC will ALWAYS set the rules on taxes. All of this is academic really because I see no movement towards either flat or sales tax.

[TexasGator]

Impeachment is bringing charges. WJC was impeached.