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IRS and Political Speech: The Tax Collection Agency Should Not Police Speech

January 1, 2018  •  By IFS Staff  •    •  

Groups seeking tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization must apply to the IRS to obtain this classification. Advocacy nonprofits, designated by a 501(c)(4) status, are one such classification of tax-exempt organizations that are permitted to engage in some political activities, so long as the majority of their activities are not political. As the Tea Party movement gained its footing in…

“Bright Lines Project” Fails to Live Up to Its Name

July 12, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

The “Bright Lines Project” began with the noble ambition of defying this axiom by taking the harder course; it was supposed to clear up ...

Committee Hearing on IRS Scandal Raises More Questions Than Answers

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June 28, 2013   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

On the morning of June 27, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to question IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner (and Acting ...

McConnell Warns of “a Culture of Intimidation” Suppressing Free Speech

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June 24, 2013   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

Last Friday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the American Enterprise Institute concerning “a culture of intimidation” in Washington that may have influenced the ...

Why Liberals Should Care about the IRS Scandal

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June 19, 2013   •  By Luke Wachob   •  

Everyone knows sports fans aren’t objective, and it’s never clearer than when a referee makes a bad call. When it goes against your team, ...

Restricting Political Speech: The First Question Must be “Why?”

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June 18, 2013   •  By Tom Swanson   •  

Although the recent IRS scandal suggests that bureaucratic control of political associations and political speech is a dangerous idea, “reformers” have used the media ...

IRS Targeting Program Update

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June 10, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

Revelations from Congressional investigations into the IRS targeting program last week continue to cast doubt on the veracity of the agency’s narrative that the ...

“This is fixable”

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May 15, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

In a brief statement, President Obama addressed the growing IRS scandal.  Calling for cooperation between his administration and Congress in its “oversight role,” President ...

Shifting Blame for the IRS Scandal

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May 14, 2013   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

The IRS scandal, which really is, at its core, about speech and privacy and the seemingly evergreen call of many lawmakers for a new ...

IRS Political Probes Draw Heat – Dumb Quote of the Day

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May 13, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  

In the wake of the scandal involving the IRS’s partisan political criteria for scrutinizing non-profit organizations, David Vance of the Campaign Legal Center wins ...

IRS Targeted Groups For ‘Additional Review’ Based on Ideology

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May 10, 2013   •  By David Keating   •  

Here is my reaction to today’s Associated Press article that the “the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during ...

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