The Huffington Post, IRS May Make Political Groups Pay Dearly for Keeping Donors Secret -- And Out Them, by Dan Froomkin: For years, the IRS has done little or nothing to check the rise of overtly political groups that claim a special tax-exempt status in order to funnel secret money...
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Dan Froomkin, a popular blogger who covered national politics for the Washington Post until his recent firing, has been hired as the Washington bureay chief of Huffington Post. "Though the precise reasons for Froomkin's firing by Th... Read Post
A group of Senate Democrats, led by Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), complained to the IRS commissioner in 2012 that political groups were improperly claiming tax-exempt status and possibly allowing donors to wrongly claim tax deductions f... Read Post
Following up on Friday's post, CRS: Political Ads and the Tax Code: Huffington Post: Karl Rove's Donor Plan Could Run Afoul of IRS, Congressional Report Suggests, by Dan Froomkin: A new report from Congress' nonpartisan research arm... Read Post