IRS audit rate is 10 times the normal rate for tea party donors. that's barack Obama ordering the IRS to eliminate his political enemies, an impeachable offense. the buck Stops with Obama . Barack Obama is the head of the IRS
if a Republican president had done this it would be on 24/7 on the network TV instead of “the racist comment some baskteball guy said” , or the luge at the winter olympics, or the missing plane, or trayvon martin,
in the 1970’s the watergate hearings were on all 3 networks 24/7 .and Nixon's IRS never did oppress anyone. but the media insinuated that he might have wanted to
That may not be a correct assumption, depending on the makeup of the certain TP organizations. Before making a blank statement, it would be good to have some facts regarding the overall number of donors and amount of donations, and compare to overall audit rate based on donors' "financial demographics."
I would make a general assumption that small, newly formed TP orgs — and these are normally the ones which would be applying for tax-exempt status — would be initially (before broad fund-raising efforts from small donors) funded by a few well-to-do politically active individuals, i.e., the so-called 1%-ers (though some may fall well outside this income or wealth group).
In recent years IRS has been concentrating on auditing high net worth individuals — because, allegedly according to great bank robber Willie Sutton, "that's where the money is."
Now we find, from Chances of getting audited by the IRS lowest in years - CNBC / AP, 2014 April 14
..... Budget cuts and new responsibilities are straining the Internal Revenue Service's ability to police tax returns. This year, the IRS will have fewer agents auditing returns than at any time since at least the 1980s. ..... < snip > ..... Last year, the IRS audited less than 1 percent of all returns from individuals, the lowest rate since 2005. This year, Koskinen said, "The numbers will go down." ..... < snip > Your chances of getting audited vary greatly, based on your income. The more you make, the more likely you are to get a letter from the IRS. Only 0.9 percent of people making less than $200,000 were audited last year. That's the lowest rate since the IRS began publishing the statistic in 2006. By contrast, 10.9 percent of people making $1 million or more were audited. That's the lowest rate since 2010. Only 0.6 percent of business returns were audited, but the rate varied greatly depending on the size of the business. About 16 percent of corporations with more than $10 million in assets were audited. ..... < snip > As millions of Americans race to meet Tuesday's tax deadline, their chances of getting audited are lower than they have been in years. ..... < snip >
If average annual income of donors to these small TP orgs falls somewhere between $250K and $1.5M, that would make the approximately 10% audit rate be comfortably within normal statistical probability of audit for that group.
Conservatives need to have the facts before they jump on this news, so they won't make a laughing stock of themselves and jeopardize the entire IRS fiasco (for which Democrats currently have no excuse or defense) from being dismissed as statistics-and-math-challenged "right-wing extremists."
Dems' only hope is to latch onto some Republicans' mistake and make a campaign out of it. Let's make sure they don't get this opportunity, by examining the facts first.
To have audited that many Tea Party donors would be a waste of resources as the IRS would find themselves drilling dry holes when it comes to getting moneys owed to the U.S. as opposed to “normalized” auditing percentages. Tea Party people grumble but do pay their taxes. It is harassment pure and simple.