Tax overhaul: Looking to IRS scandal for momentum

[DallasNE]

2. I Agree With Republican Griffin

When he says "If you want to diminish and limit the power of the IRS, you have got to reduce the complexity of the tax code and take them out of it.". The devil is in the details, however.

What I have been saying is that the FEC should determine what category an organization needs to apply under when there is an indication on some kind of political activity. The IRS would then just simply enforce the law. If an organization filed 501(c)(4) paperwork and the FEC ruled that they needed to re-file as a PAC then they would need to re-file as a PAC and those rules and laws would apply and be enforced by the IRS.

The other thing this points out is that many of the "loopholes" are there by the grace of IRS thanks to the "overly complex tax provisions (that) have given the IRS too much discretion in interpreting and enforcing the law". A prime example of that would be the 1959 interpretation that "exclusive" actually meant "over half but issue ads don't count".