Internal Revenue Service

Broke no laws, IRS official says _ then takes 5th

10 hours, 54 minutes ago

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.

Carney: Criticism of IRS response 'legitimate'

17 hours, 6 minutes ago

However, Carney has struggled to provide full accounts of who on the president's staff may have known about the politically explosive IRS activity before the president.

GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups

22 hours, 38 minutes ago

Martinek sent a letter to IRS saying that members had debated its request not to organize Planned Parenthood protests, but wanted definitions of "organize, picketing, protesting" to ensure...

IRS official declares innocence, then pleads the 5th

23 hours, 25 minutes ago

While two prior hearings focused on fired Acting IRS Commissioner Miller and his predecessor, Bush-administration appointee Doug Shulman, Issa on Wednesday put the focus on the inspector general.

Protesters rally over IRS' tea party scrutiny

1 day ago

A crowd Tuesday packed the sidewalks in front of and across the street from a Cincinnati federal building housing the Internal Revenue Service offices that handled tax-exempt status applications.

IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

1 day ago

Lois Lerner heads the IRS division that singled out conservative groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.

Invitation to All Points: IRS Probe

1 day ago

Invitation to All Points: IRS Probe

IRS official Lerner to take 5th at hearing

1 day ago

A key figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy plans to invoke her constitutional right not to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

IRS chief and Treasury knew about plan to use planted question to unveil scandal

1 day ago

A day earlier, California-based NorCal Tea Party Patriots brought a federal suit in Cincinnati against the IRS alleging the agency, in targeting it, violated its constitutional rights to free speech.

Lew: IRS actions "unacceptable and inexcusable"

1 day ago

Lew told the Senate Banking Committee that he has also asked acting director Daniel Werfel to fix any flaws in management of the IRS to make sure there is no recurrence of the problems.

Leading Senate Democrat: IRS behavior intolerable

2 days ago

"For more than a year, from 2011 through the 2012 election, members of Congress repeatedly asked Shulman about complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the IRS.

Anti-IRS protest planned at Ohio federal building

2 days ago

IRS officials have acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning.

SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash

2 days ago

The argument goes something like this: Not only did the IRS favor Democrats by impeding their opponents through the tax code, they're also funneling money directly to Democratic candidates.

AP source: Treasury told WH of IRS disclosure plan

2 days ago

A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups.

A timeline of the IRS's scrutiny of the right

2 days ago

He says generally that the IRS is seeing more tax-exempt applications from politically active groups and taking steps to "coordinate the handling of the case to ensure consistency.

White House: More top aides knew about IRS probe

2 days ago

On Sunday, senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer made appearances on five major Sunday morning talk shows to answer questions on the IRS, but he also declined to disclose the details of who knew what when.

Aide: Obama learned about IRS from news accounts

4 days ago

A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news."

Invitation to All Points: IRS probe

4 days ago

Invitation to All Points: IRS probe

IRS probe ignored most influential groups

5 days ago

There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.

Religious groups say they were scrutinized by IRS

5 days ago

In its suit, Z Street says it was told by the IRS that it was "scrutinizing" groups connected with Israel and that its case was being referred to a special IRS unit.

Tea party groups call IRS process 'nightmare'

5 days ago

The IRS also requested "detailed contents of the speeches or forums, names of the speakers or panels and their credentials" for all future and past public events, according to one of the IRS letters.

AP source: Obama to tap Werfel as acting IRS head

5 days ago

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sought and received Miller's resignation Wednesday, as the White House tried to contain the controversy over the IRS targeting tea party groups for extra review.

Obama meets with new acting IRS head

5 days ago

He's replacing Steven Miller, who was ousted Wednesday amid revelations that the IRS improperly singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny.

GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law

5 days ago

And it turns out the former head of the IRS office that subjected tea-party groups to tougher scrutiny for tax exemptions is now running the agency's health care division.

The IRS and its tea party tempest

5 days ago

IRS actions in the period covering the 2010 congressional elections and the early going of the 2012 presidential campaign have tattered the perception that the agency is clean of political leanings.

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