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Friday, February 28, 2014

Reining In The IRS

The House GOP unveils its plan.

A comprehensive tax-reform plan House Republicans will unveil this morning takes dead aim at what Republicans perceive to be the IRS’s persistent abuse of its authority. According to Republican aides familiar with the plan, it will curb the power of the nation’s tax-collecting agency, something Republicans have attempted to do since the agency admitted to improperly singling out conservative non-profit groups last May.

The legislation, authored by Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.), introduces reforms that directly address the circumstances that led to last year’s scandal. The specter of Lois Lerner looms large in the minds of many Republicans, and the plan mandates the termination of any IRS employee found to have taken official action for political purposes. The 1988 bill that restructured and reformed the IRS spells out ten actions for which the IRS commissioner must terminate an agency employee after an “administrative or judicial determination” that the employee has committed the prohibited action — among them, providing a false statement under oath on a matter involving a taxpayer and violating the rights of a taxpayer. Today’s bill would add the commission of politically motivated acts to the list.

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4 comments:

FLAT TAX FOR EVERY-ONE said...

Do away with the IRS

Anonymous said...

They will change tax laws when the super rich and powerful make the new laws beneficial to them.

Daddio said...

It's doubtful that a democrat-controlled senate would go along with anything that would limit their ability to torment the republicans ...

Anonymous said...

6:31-True,which makes us sitting ducks any way you look at it.