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After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email
As reported by the Associated Press, via US News & World Report, the IRS says that it cannot locate much of the email sent by a former IRS official over a two-year period. "The IRS told Congress Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups." Three congressional committees are investigating the agency because of the allegations of politically motivated mishandling of those applications, as is the Justice Department and the IRS's own inspector general. As the story says, "Congressional investigators have shown that IRS officials in Washington were closely involved in the handling of tea party applications, many of which languished for more than a year without action. But so far, they have not publicly produced evidence that anyone outside the agency directed the targeting or even knew about it." CBS News has a slightly different version, also based on the AP's reporting.
When are we going to get an investigation of Darrell Issa and his empty witch hunts?
Thanks for fucking the country, liberals. This man has, is, and will continue to do what niggers do best, which is nigger the place up. And it's YOUR fault.
I mean, the man's middle name is "HUSSEIN" for fuck's sake. I know, I know, the only choice was between an old dude and the ludicrous Palin.... or SOMEONE FUCKING NAMED "HUSSEIN". Gee, I wonder what I should do? I know! I'll vote for HUSSEIN!!!!! Better that than someone who thinks they can see Russia from their fucking living room, right? Hawhawhawhaw!!!!
Thanks for helping nigger up the country. It's done. It's finished. And it's YOUR fault.
Lost in this whole discussion is whether the Tea Party deserves tax-exempt status in the first place.
The law says groups granted such status must engage in activities exclusively for the public good.
The IRS guidelines softened that to primarily for the public good.
Arguably, many Tea-Party groups fail both criteria. And probably so do a number of political organizations over the spectrum from left to right.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
You are a complete idiot if you think that your obligation as a taxpayer to accurately record the reasons for your federal tax return under penalty of perjury, is the same as retaining mundane mails which were not at the time subject to retention.
Unless of course you can present some sort of requirement that the mails were subject to retention, of course. Because then both you and the IRS technical staff would have known that they were subject to retention. And not just the request of Congress retroactively that they were potentially subject to retention.
Is there a law, or Executive order, which required their retention?
Because there is a law that your receipts be retained and serve as proof that your returns are accurate.
You have presented an assymetric argument, and one that does not make any sense. Refine it, or retract it.
If we take an objective look at the matter, there actually is a good reason to give extra scrutiny to the tea party applications, as well as applications from many other political groups. The tea party is a group that openly advocates for people to do everything they can to get out of paying taxes; including cases where tea party members advise people to not send in any forms to the IRS at all.
And what is the job of the IRS? In case you have forgotten, they are tasked with collecting taxes. If someone is not paying taxes, the IRS is responsible to do everything within their powers to collect those owed taxes.
This is no different from the DEA paying extra attention to NORML.
I know that slashdot has taken a very conservative lean in the past ~10 years. But this nonsense is just silly. Furthermore one thing it most definitely is not is technology related.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.