From Atlas Shrugs:
Thursday, February 16, 2012
CORRUPT IRS WON'T GRANT RICHMOND TEA PARTY TAX-EXEMPT STATUS BUT SUBVERSIVE ORGS LIKE MEDIA MATTERS ENJOY TAXPAYER-FUNDED SEDITION
The IRS denies patriot organizations like The Richmond Tea Party tax exempt status, but the subversive, lawbreaking Media Matters, actively working to bring down this country, enjoys tax-exempt status.
Omerica -- era of crony subversion.
The Weekly Standard The Richmond Tea Party group is blasting the IRS for allegedly failing to grant tax exempt status to the pro-limited government organization.The Richmond Tea Party group is blasting the IRS for allegedly failing to grant tax exempt status to the pro-limited government organization. “The Internal Revenue Service has served Richmond Tea Party (RTP) with unreasonable requests to obtain a tax-exempt status, fitting the pattern of the Federal Government’s forcing liberty groups to spend inordinate time and moneycomplying with their demands during this critical 2012 election year,” RTP claims in a press release.According to the Richmond Tea Party, here’s the process that led to the “unreasonable documentation requests” from the IRS:On December 28, 2009, RTP applied to become a 501(c)(4) organization. After nearly ten months, the IRS finally responded with a letter (dated September 17, 2010), requesting detailed documentation to satisfy 17 questions, giving RTP only a two-week window in which to finish. (As the response was curiously due on the opening day of the inaugural Virginia Tea Party Convention, for which RTP was a central organizer, we requested and received a two-week extension.) We fully complied, providing over 500 pages of documentation. We received no response for over a year. Eventually the IRS sent a letter dated January 9, 2012, thanking us for our “complete and thorough responses” from the first request, but then asking us to answer 12 additional questions in 53 separate parts, including the totally inappropriate request for a full list of our donors and volunteers. We were given the same two-week timeframe for completion. It should be noted that this most recent letter was issued on the same day that the IRS issued a new 45-section bulletin regarding applications for tax-exempt status.The IRS did not immediately respond to THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s request for comment.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 02:26 PM in Obama's Corruption Eruption, Obama's Mafia Presidency | Permalink
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