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Republicans, Democrats Agree: IRS "Delinquent" With Treatment of Tax-Exempt Organizations

Statement

Date: Aug. 5, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Taxes Government Operations

U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS, issued the following statement after the Finance Committee released the findings of its bipartisan report on its investigation into the IRS's treatment of organizations applying for tax-exempt status:

"I applaud Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden for conducting this bipartisan and in-depth investigation of the IRS's behavior with respect to its treatment of certain conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status," said Thune. "This report confirms what a lot of us already knew -- the Obama IRS was grossly incompetent, it improperly targeted conservative groups for political reasons, and it stonewalled various investigations into reported misbehavior. Most importantly, this report confirms that the IRS let down the American people and lost what little trust and confidence taxpayers had left in the agency."


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