See Some of the Outrageous Requests the IRS Made to Tea
Party Groups
May. 15, 2013 10:48am
AP
Conservative
groups targeted by the the Internal Revenue Service were ordered to provide copies
of their websites, social media postings, donor lists and much more in the
still-emerging IRS scandal.
Politico
reviewed documents from 11 such organizations and found
they were asked deeply probing inquiries, including for one group, the “minutes
of all board meetings since your creation.”
“They
were asking for a U-Haul truck’s worth of information,” Toby Marie Walker,
president of the Waco Tea Party, told Politico. Her group was asked for copies
of all its newsletters, any stories written about them, and transcripts of
radio shows where they mentioned any political candidates by name.
The
American Patriots Against Government Excess was asked for summaries of all
material passed out during meetings. They had been reading the U.S.
Constitution; the group’s president mailed in a copy.
The
inquiries were all in the name of the organizations’ applications for
tax-exempt status, yet the process for many stretched out for more than a year
and a half.
Other
groups were asked whether they had any tie to the Koch brothers-backed anti-tax
organization Americans for Prosperity. The Liberty Township Tea Party was asked
whether they knew a former leader of the Cincinnati Tea Party. That former
leader, Justin Binik-Thomas, said he never worked with the Liberty group and
has no idea why there were lumped together — though is worried now about being
on the IRS’s radar.
“Will
my personal taxes get audited? Will my small-business taxes get audited? Am I a
pawn to try to get at another group?” Binik-Thomas said to Politico. “There are
a lot of people involved in the Tea Party. Why was I isolated from thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands of people? Why was I singled out?”
One
conservative group, Linchpins of Liberty in Franklin, Tenn., gives talks to
students. Founder and president Kevin Kookogey said the IRS wanted the names of
everyone his group trained.
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source: Daily Mail
“Can
you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their
children to the IRS?” Kookogey told the Daily Mail. He said the very thought “should send
chills through your spine that the government would ask me to identify those I
teach, and to provide details of what I teach them.”
4 comments:
Why do you continue to pay income tax when it has been proven to be an illegal law? All but 10% goes directly to the British Monarchy and the Vatican. The remaining 10% is for paying the IRS employees. As far as Hillary is concerned - what else would you expect from HITLER'S granddaughter? Wake up people - it's time to take back our Country and restore our Constitutional Government.
Hey I thought hitlers granddaughter is Germany's Angela Merkle erkle whatever...
Anyway, it is time to tell these fruitcases at IRS ... ENOUGH! I will no longer comply... period.
I will not file another income tax. Period!
Take down this ODIOUS entity once and for all!!!
Whoever created the IRS used the Inquisition and German NAZI as the mold.
I hope more people don't file!!
What do the people who attended meetings have to do with taxes? How does attending a meeting equate to tax liability or even association with profit, capital gains, etc.?
If I were the head of one of these groups I would write a self-executing contract asking them to prove what law requires this information.
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