a non-profit for the benefit of israel should not be approved by the IRS. if they want a tax break they should move to israel.
On May 16, 3:08 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.jewishpress.com/news/congress-widens-investigation-of-irs-... > **** > > **** > Congress Widens IRS Investigation, Pro-Israel Groups Were Targeted**** > > *By: Lori Lowenthal > Marcus<http://www.jewishpress.com/author/lori-lowenthal-marcus/> > ***** > > *Published:* May 15th, 2013 > *Latest update:* May 16th, 2013**** > > **[image: The IRS Acting Commissioner will appear before a House Ways and > Means Committee hearing on Friday, May 17, 2013, to investigate > politicization of the IRS]** > The IRS Acting Commissioner will appear before a House Ways and Means > Committee hearing on Friday, May 17, 2013, to investigate politicization of > the IRS, and a potential widespread coverup. > Photo Credit: Lori Lowenthal Marcus**** > > The chairman and the ranking committee member of the U.S. House Ways and > Means Committee released a > letter<http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/camp-levin_5_4_13.pdf>the > committee sent today, May 14, to Steve Miller, Acting Commissioner of > the Internal Revenue Service. That letter informs Miller that the committee > has greatly expanded the scope of its investigation into alleged misdeeds > by the IRS. > > Among other information that congress is now seeking is information about > the IRS's special scrutiny of organizations whose mission involve Israel. > > Last week *The Jewish > Press*<http://www.jewishpress.com/news/irs-punished-conservative-non-profits...>connected > the admitted increased scrutiny of certain conservative > organizations by the IRS, and the alleged targeting by the agency of Z > STREET, a pro-Israel organization. That activity gave rise to a lawsuit > filed against the IRS in 2010. (This reporter is the president of the > organization that brought that lawsuit.) > > Congressmen Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sander Levin (D-MI) signed a 3 page, > single space, 13 point letter today, making clear that congress was greatly > displeased with the lack of candor and responsiveness the IRS has displayed > towards their committee's now-nearly two year long investigation of the > agency. > > In addition to seeking information about the IRS dealing with > organization's whose mission deals with Israel, the Ways and Means > Committee is also seeking information about any other kinds of > organizations the IRS chose to scrutinize based upon those organization's > political views. > > The tone of the letter makes clear that Acting Commissioner Miller is in > for a grueling hearing this Friday. The congressmen use euphemisms, but > what they are accusing the IRS of doing was lying to the Committee, > repeatedly - either by commission or omission - about actions it has now > admitted taking. Now they want to know, essentially, who decided that the > committee would be told lies, and how far up the chain of command did the > lying go, in addition to the underlying inappropriate conduct. > > Congress is also demanding to know what information about the now-admitted, > and perhaps additional to be admitted misdeeds was shared with the Treasury > Department and with the White House, and when that information was shared. > > One of the most jarring paragraphs in any letter sent to a government > agency by a congressional committee is found in the May 14 letter from > Congressmen Camp and Levin:**** > > The IRS, through its officials, is legally and ethically bound to tell the > truth to Congress and the American people. In this situation, the IRS had a > continuing obligation to update and correct information provided to > Congress if it was later determined to be incomplete or inaccurate. Why did > your agency fail to be completely forthcoming with the Committee in its > responses to the Committee's ongoing investigation and in testimony before > the Committee regarding the IRS's practice of targeting conservative groups? > **** > > It is also clear that the Ways and Means Committee will be holding > additional hearings into alleged widespread misdeeds. The new material > congress seeks must be supplied to the Ways and Means Committee by May 21, > a week from today. > > Perhaps the only thing that is not yet clear is who made the decisions to > employ the vast power of the IRS to engage in inappropriate, bullying > activity of particular groups of Americans, and how and who made the > decisions to cover up that activity. It appears congress intends to find > out the answers to those questions. > > It's going to be a long, hot summer for the IRS.**** > > ** ** > > image001.jpg > 168KViewDownload -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
