IRS and the Targeting of the Tea Party and Other Groups
To help clarify whether IRS incorrectly, unfairly, or illegally targeted the Tea Party and other conservative groups, here are the answers to a few basic questions.Is it improper for IRS to target...
View ArticleThe IRS and the Tea Party: Treasury Report Finds Big Bungling but Small Scandal
The IRS’s botched processing of requests for tax-exempt status by political groups isn’t the new Watergate. In fact, as scandals go, it is barely the Days Inn--based on what we've learned from a...
View ArticleGet IRS Out of the Business of Regulating Political Speech
A final thought, I hope, on the IRS/tea party scandal: Why do we want the IRS regulating political speech? It seems crazy on its face, yet that is exactly the system we have created.True, the agency...
View ArticleDo Campaign Finance Middle-Men Deserve Tax-exempt Status?
Thanks to the campaign watchdog organization Center for Responsive Politics and National Public Radio, we’ve learned more about the tactics of some political organizations that enjoy tax-exempt status....
View ArticleObama Will Try to Clarify the Role of Tax-Exempt Groups in Politics
The Obama Administration is trying to untangle the controversy over the growing role of 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations in politics by creating a new category of banned candidate-related...
View ArticleTheTaxVox 2013 Lump of Coal Award: Wait ‘Til Next Year Edition
Tax Vox proudly announces its seventh annual Lump of Coal Award for the worst tax and fiscal policies of 2013. The year was a curious mix of really bad ideas and dithering. After all, Congress's finest...
View ArticleThe Real IRS Flap Is About Dark Money, Not Emails
Don’t get distracted by the political theater over lost IRS emails. There is little new about headline-seeking politicians berating IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Like most of what happens in Congress...
View ArticleThe Public Wants Clear Rules About Campaign Giving Through Tax-Exempts. Is It...
A poll released today by the conservative Hudson Institute and the liberal group Public Citizen finds that nearly 9 in 10 voters surveyed favor clear rules that define political activities by...
View ArticleThe Tax Vox Lump of Coal Awards: The 10 Worst Tax Ideas of 2014
It’s time for the annual Tax Vox Lump of Coal Awards for the worst tax policy of 2014. The past 12 months were a banner year for bad ideas and their perpetrators. The Top 10 are: Frank Underwood &...
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Tax Exemption, Free Speech and a Bold Campaign Promise
My daughter just finished the fifth grade and loved learning about the American Revolution. Over the July 4th holiday, she explained why the colonists wanted independence: “People didn’t want to have...
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