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Tea Party Groups Abuse Non-Profit Status, GOP Cries Scandal
The GOP has been in the Obama Administration’s ear yelling “unfair profiling” by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for targeting conservative groups that were looking for tax exemptions as 501(c)(4) organizations. However, this alleged “scandal” that was cooked up by the GOP has been unearthing another, this time tangibly provable, scandal.
What made it easy for the Tea Party cash cattlers to abuse the 501(c)(4) non-profit status are its vague and loosely written codes. So much so that The Nation reports that the “IRS rules for primary activity have been interpreted to mean that 501(c)(4) groups cannot spend more than 49 percent of their funds on political endeavors.”
If anything, that’s the part of the code that should be written crystal-clear, black-and-white. Something like that should never have been left to “interpretation.”
What made it easy for the Tea Party cash cattlers to abuse the 501(c)(4) non-profit status are its vague and loosely written codes. So much so that The Nation reports that the “IRS rules for primary activity have been interpreted to mean that 501(c)(4) groups cannot spend more than 49 percent of their funds on political endeavors.”
If anything, that’s the part of the code that should be written crystal-clear, black-and-white. Something like that should never have been left to “interpretation.”
Full article at Ring of Fire.
