1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – “Facts Are Stubborn Things” – John Adams
3 – Suit against IRS Appears to Have Limited Chance of Success
Month: May 2013
EO Tax Journal 2013-94
1 – So Where Are We Today? Part 2
2 – House Appropriations Committee and Ways and Means Committee to Hold Hearings on IRS Next Week
3 – NSAGP May Newsletter
4 – Interesting Articles in The Chronicle of Philanthropy in May 23 Issue
5 – The PGA Tour: A Not-For-Profit Money Machine
6 – ACLJ Files Federal Lawsuit Against IRS on Behalf of 25 Tea Party Groups
7 – CREW Sues IRS for Failing to Revise Rules Governing 501(c)(4) Groups
8 – CREW and Reform Groups Call on Congress to Deal with Two IRS Scandals
EO Tax Journal 2013-93
1 – So Where Are We Today?
2 – Marc Owens on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
3 – In Defense of Lois Lerner
4 – IRS Emails Raise Questions about Timing of Investigative Report
5 – Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess
6 – Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
EO Tax Journal 2013-92
1 – Late-Breaking News (Lerner Out, Corbin In)
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag (Mark Scott, Milt Cerny)
3 – Lois Lerner’s Brief And Awful Day On Capitol Hill
4 – Focus Shifts to June 2011 Emails and Cindy Thomas’ Role
5 – EO Attorney: IRS Leadership Continues to Dissemble, Deny and Obfuscate
EO Tax Journal 2013-91
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Werfel Tries to Rally the Troops
3 – Hearings This Week – Part 3
4 – Written Answers to TIGTA from Lois Lerner Entered into Hearing Record
5 – Written Answers to TIGTA from Joseph Grant Entered into Hearing Record
6 – Douglas Shulman Statement for House Oversight and Reform Committee
7 – Statement of Neal Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
EO Tax Journal 2013-90
1 – Hearings This Week – Part 2
2 – Former IRS Commissioner Tells Congress He Didn’t Know Extent of Problems in Cincinnati Office
3 – Primer on Political Activity by 501(c) and 527 Organizations
4 – § 501(c)(3) Applicant Files § 7428 Declaratory Judgment Action
EO Tax Journal 2013-89
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Hearings This Week
3 – A Bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner
EO Tax Journal 2013-88
1 – My Reaction to Friday’s Ways and Means Hearing
2 – A Modest Proposal (Marv Friedlander)
3 – How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
4 – Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio
5 – IRS Scandal Is About Donors, Not Tax (Roger Colinvaux)
EO Tax Journal 2013-87
1 – Werfel In, Grant Out
2 – Whither Lois Lerner?
3 – IRS Releases Q&A to Explain All — Admits ‘Ineffective Processes’
4 – Excerpt from “The Scandals Are Falling Apart”
5 – The Real IRS Scandal
6 – Inadequate IRS Rules Helped Create Scandal
EO Tax Journal 2013-86
1 – Steve Miller Out, Hypocrisy and Hysteria In
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions About the IRS and About the Report
4 – The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the Lookout for False Partisan Witch-hunts
5 – The IRS Was Wrong to Target the Tea Party. They Should’ve Gone after All 501(c)(4)s.
6 – One of These Two Articles is Wrong — Your Choice
A – IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row
B – IRS Approved Liberal Groups While Tea Party in Limbo
EO Tax Journal 2013-85
Tea Party Admission Sets Off Political Firestorm – Part 4
1 – Yesterday’s Bombshell Announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder
2 – TIGTA Report Released
3 – Camp, Levin Request All IRS Documents
4 – Steve Miller: ‘We Should Have Done a Better Job’
5 – IRS Official’s Admission Baffled Audience At Tax Panel
6 – IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
EO Tax Journal 2013-84
Tea Party Admission Sets Off Political Firestorm – Part 3
1 – Comments Yesterday by President Obama on the IRS
2 – Ways and Means to Hold Hearing on Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups
3 – Five Key Players in IRS Mess
EO Tax Journal 2013-83
1 – Tea Party Admission Sets Off Political Firestorm – Part 2
2 – IRS Knew Tea Party Targeted in 2011
3 – Watchdog Report Finds IRS Knew of Tea Party Targets in 2011
4 – Report: Top IRS Officials Knew in 2011 that Conservative Groups Were Targeted
5 – The IRS Targets Conservatives
6 – Who Had the Worst Week in Washington? The IRS
7 – IRS under Siege with No Friends
8 – Playing Politics with Tax Records
9 – Conservatives Have Themselves a Real Scandal on Their Hands
10 – ‘I’m Not Good at Math’: The IRS’ Public Relations Disaster
11 – The IRS Scandal Will Test Everyone
12 – IRS Targeted Groups Critical of Government, Documents from Agency Probe Show
13 – Five Questions on the IRS Debacle
EO Tax Journal 2013-82
1 – Tea Party Admission Sets Off Political Firestorm
2 – Lois Lerner’s Response to Tea Party Question
3 – Boustany Demands Information on IRS Targeting Conservative Groups
4 – Ways and Means Committee Will Hold a Hearing on IRS Targeting Conservative Groups
5 – ICYMI: Nobody Died, but the IRS Lied
EO Tax Journal 2013-81
1 – ABA’s EO Committee to Meet Today
2 – Settlement Ends Hershey Trust Probe
3 – Kochs Form “Business League,” Will Keep Political Spending In the Shadows
4 – New Koch Brothers Group Revamps Billionaires’ Dark Money Operation
EO Tax Journal 2013-80
1 – Mystery Man Named TE/GE Commissioner
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – My Observations on Nonprofit Media
4 – Lois Lerner’s First Hill Appearance a Tour de Force
EO Tax Journal 2013-79
1 – Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on Colleges and Universities Today
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – Taxing the Fourth Estate: Nonprofit Media in the Digital Age
EO Tax Journal 2013-78
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – EO Excerpts from JCT Report on Tax Reform
EO Tax Journal 2013-77
1 – States Try to Tackle ‘Secret Money’ in Politics
2 – Billionaire Kaiser Exploiting Charity Loophole With Boats
3 – Material Changes in Operations with No Notice to IRS Justified Retroactive Revocation (TAM 201318034)
4 – Foreign Organization Whose Sole Activity is Investment Management for the Benefit of Registered Charities Does Not Qualify under Section 501(c)(3) (Denial 201317011)
EO Tax Journal 2013-76
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – AICPA Recommends Automatic Six-Month Extension for Filing Form 990
3 – Greg Colvin Adds Supplemental Statement to His Senate Testimony
4 – New Markets Tax Credits that Benefit Low-Income Communities Have New Life, New Allocation
EO Tax Journal 2013-75
1 – My Comments on the Remarks of the IRS’s ‘Top Cop’
2 – Boustany Announces Hearing on the IRS’s Colleges and Universities Compliance Project
3 – DOJ Should Not Wait on IRS to Act, Says Senator Whitehouse
4 – ABA Retirement Funds Held Not to Qualify as a Business League under Section 501(c)(6)
EO Tax Journal 2013-74
IRS Enforcement Update
What follows are the April 26 remarks of Nan Downing, Director, Exempt Organizations Examinations, as delivered to attendees of the annual Georgetown Law program on Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations.