Scott Introduces EPIC Act to End Partisan Culture at IRS

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Following the Senate Finance Committee's investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) treatment of conservative organizations, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) today introduced the End the Partisan IRS Culture (EPIC) Act to decrease political decision making at the IRS by exempting the agency from labor organization and collective bargaining requirements. Senator Scott announced his new legislation following last week's hearing with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on how the agency is responding to and implementing the Committee's August 2015 bipartisan investigative report.

"The American people should be able to trust that the Internal Revenue Service is running as efficiently as possible, and not being used by any president as a blunt force tool to enact revenge on political enemies," Scott said. "Unionization has led to hundreds of employees working solely on union issues instead of serving the American people, with 95 percent of the political donations from these union dues going to Democrats."

Scott continued, "My legislation will help end the partisan culture at the IRS by exempting the agency from labor organization and collective bargaining requirements. We should put the 200-plus employees currently doing union work back to serving the American taxpayers, not their union bosses and the politicians they support. They should be processing refunds and answering taxpayers' phone calls rather than letting almost 9 million Americans be hung up on with a "courtesy disconnect.'"

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