Who Will Tame the Taxman?; The IRS Scandal  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8837 (May 2013), page 33-34.
Topik: Politics; Tax Regulations; Tax Exempt Organizations; Scandals; Taxes

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When Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless hoped to quell the hullabaloo about its seemingly partial treatment of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups. He failed. This week protests were held outside several IRS offices, and Congress continued to investigate. The bureaucrat at the heart of the row refused to answer questions to avoid self-incrimination. Republicans began to invoke the word "impeachment", if only to say, with a show of moderation, that it was not quite justified on the evidence revealed so far. It turns out that more people in the White House were aware of the IRS's misdeeds earlier than the administration had previously admitted. The IRS selected for extra scrutiny groups whose names included conservative buzzwords, such as "tea party", "9/12" and "patriot". Republicans accuse the taxmen of persecuting anti-tax groups. The IRS's defenders insist that a few low-level functionaries simply made a clumsy attempt at an administrative short-cut.

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