Internal Revenue Service

IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

41 minutes 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

2 hours, 7 minutes ago

Invitation to All Points: IRS Probe

IRS official Lerner to take 5th at hearing

2 hours, 22 minutes 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

5 hours, 57 minutes 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"

7 hours, 57 minutes 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

8 hours, 54 minutes 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

16 hours, 39 minutes ago

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

SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash

19 hours, 40 minutes 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

21 hours, 28 minutes 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

21 hours, 44 minutes 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

23 hours, 46 minutes 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

2 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

2 days ago

Invitation to All Points: IRS probe

IRS probe ignored most influential groups

3 days ago

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

Religious groups say they were scrutinized by IRS

3 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'

3 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

3 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

3 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

4 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

4 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.

Congress, fired IRS chief clash

4 days ago

The embattled and departing head of the IRS on Friday defended as proper the actions taken by IRS employees who selected for close scrutiny tea party groups and other conservative organizations.

Ousted IRS chief regrets treatment of tea party

4 days ago

George's report concluded that the IRS office in Cincinnati, which screened applications for the tax exemptions, improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for tougher treatment.

Official still probing political pressure on IRS

4 days ago

George released a report this week that criticized IRS officials for lax management that let workers target tea party and other conservative groups for intensified scrutiny.

Ousted IRS chief: Errors not caused by politics

4 days ago

Miller was testifying in Congress' first hearing into the targeting of tea party and other conservative groups by the IRS.

Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget

4 days ago

Catherine Engelbrecht of Richmond, Texas, an official of both groups, complained that she and her husband are not only wrangling with the IRS but have fielded inquiries from other federal agencies.

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