The U.S. tax code allows Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-linked, tax-exempt 501(c)4 group, to shield the names of its donors — but California will now be able to force it to share donor names with the state after winning a federal appeal Tuesday.
Z Street’s founder said of the IRS scandal: “I very much doubt ours and the Tea Party cases would have settled had this new administration not been in office.”
California’s new Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, intends to pursue non-profit groups that he claims are doing more political work than charity or social welfare work.
Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the 24 nonprofits devoting more than half their total spending to influence elections between 2008 and 2013, in an apparent violation of tax rules, says a new report.
Judicial Watch has released more blockbuster documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that confirm that the IRS used donor lists of tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits.
The Internal Revenue Service is trying to recover from allegations of obstruction of justice regarding Lois Lerner’s regarding purported biased recommendations that targeted conservative groups for audit and prevented Tea Parties from gaining not-for-profit status. Now, the IRS just appointed three relatively inexperienced managers to serve as the gatekeepers for reviewing 501(c)4 “dark money pools” and their political activity, according to an agency memo leaked to the OpenSecrets Blog.
