Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch called on Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen to abandon the agency's effort to broaden a new rule applying to political nonprofits, warning in a letter sent Monday that the move could further undermine confidence in the IRS following the uproar over its targeting of Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny.
"The IRS is just beginning to recover its reputation, and your agency is just beginning to regain trust from lawmakers," Hatch wrote to Koskinen. "Do not throw all of that away in a quixotic and bizarre mission to regulate the political activity of Americans."
Hatch said Congress will "have no choice" but to investigate the agency's motivations if it issues the rules, claiming that it would be viewed as an act of political bias. He asked Koskinen to preserve all communications related to the rulemaking, in case the Obama White House or Treasury Department is playing a role in shaping it.
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"The IRS is just beginning to recover its reputation, and your agency is just beginning to regain trust from lawmakers,"
ReplyDeleteReally, Orrin??? When did that happen?
Musta missed that along the ecomomic recovery...
I agree 11:15AM
ReplyDeleteThe IRS's reputation is in fact not improving at all. It's at an all time low in my eyes and many, many more.