IRS to make it easier for groups to get tax-exempt status, new chief says
By Zachary A. Goldfarb,
The Internal Revenue Service said in a report released Monday that it had been scrutinizing a broad array of groups seeking tax-exempt status and a congressional committee revealed that at least some of those groups were screened because they had the word progressive in their names.
The IRS had been using what it called be on the lookout lists that targeted groups for scrutiny based partly on their names as recently as this month. Principal deputy commissioner Daniel Werfel, whom President Obama chose to lead the agency when a controversy broke out last month about tax officials targeting conservative groups for scrutiny, put an end to the practice shortly after joining the IRS.
The IRS previously had said that it stopped selecting conservative groups for review based on terms such as tea party or patriot last year. But the practice continued for other groups, the agency said in a report Monday that identified significant management and judgement failures that had led to the initial targeting of conservatives.
There was a wide-ranging set of categories and cases that spanned a broad spectrum, Werfel said in a conference call. He added that though the screening method was inappropriate, we have not found evidence of intentional wrongdoing by anyone in the IRS or involvement in these matters by anyone outside the IRS.
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