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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo it was just the Cincinnati IRS office that went after the Tea Party?
The IRS has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and has 10 service centers in Andover, MA; Holtsville, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta, GA; Memphis, TN; Austin, TX; Cincinnati, OH; Fresno, CA; Kansas City, MO; and Ogden, UT).
Not sure why this is such a big scandal if it wasn't a policy sent out to all the offices? It sounds localized. Did I miss something?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/politics/gallery/presidential-scandals/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
napi21
(45,806 posts)and the Cinci office was the one notified to begin the program.
onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)I think it is not considered localized because the Cincinatti office was THE office responsible for handling these applications. Or, one of the main offices. So, even if your group was in Alabama, perhaps you were still being handled in Cincinatti. It's not that every state was handling its own.
asjr
(10,479 posts)frequently happens with him.
Jake Izzy
(130 posts)"IRS officials at the agencys Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea-party-affiliated groups, the documents show."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html