G.O.P. Senators Question I.R.S. Scrutiny of Donors

[kpete]

Source: New York Times

G.O.P. Senators Question I.R.S. Scrutiny of Donors
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: May 18, 2011


A group of Republican senators wrote to the head of the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday seeking internal correspondence and other information about the agency’s heightened scrutiny of donations to some nonprofit advocacy groups that are playing a growing role in political campaigns.

At least five donors to such groups have received letters from the agency stating that their donations may be subject to federal gift taxes, invoking a provision of law long on the books but rarely enforced.

The Republicans, all members of the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight of the I.R.S., said they were concerned that political considerations might have played a role in the agency’s decision to scrutinize such donations more closely. The senators are seeking the names of any agency staff members involved in that decision, along with internal documents and any correspondence with White House officials.

“This pattern of nonenforcement over a period of nearly three decades, coupled with the troubling issues regarding the adverse impact that enforcement might have on the exercise of constitutionally protected rights, raises important questions regarding the timing of the decision to enforce the gift tax on these contributions,” the senators wrote. “Retroactive enforcement of the gift tax in this highly politicized environment raises legitimate concerns and demands further explanation.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/us/politics/19donate.html?_r=1&hpw

[nradisic]

1. Oh...fuck off!

Fucking scumbags...

[Hubert Flottz]

2. The GOPers can dish it out all day but they cry like boners when

they get shafted.

[Javaman]

3. the cockroach repukes don't like the big bright light on them.

fuck'em.

[Zorra]

4. That's bullshit. "coupled with the troubling issues regarding the adverse

impact that enforcement might have on the exercise of constitutionally protected rights"...

What he's saying is that busting them for not paying taxes that they are supposed to pay is interfering with their first amendment rights. Quick, someone call a waaaambulance,

I'd say it's high time the IRS to start collecting these taxes from rich people. The country is deeply in debt, and just because, for some reason, the IRS started looking the other way during the Reagan Administration and stopped collecting gift taxes from the rich at that time does not meant that they are not responsible for paying them.
;)
Gift Tax

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=164872,00.html

[msanthrope]

5. Well, now we know which Senators those donations bought. n/t

[Thor_MN]

6. Rethugs should learn to only break laws within their means.

Can't afford the penalties, don't commit the crimes.

What >I< find troubling is that they acknowledge they have knowingly been breaking the law for 30 years. I say fine the crap out of them and make it hurt.