Paul Streckfus, Editor
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Taxpayer Advocate Blasts EO for Numerous Failures
3 – Does Russell George Have a Partisan Agenda?
4 – Excerpts — National Taxpayer Advocate’s Special Report to Congress, “Political Activity and the Rights of Applicants for Tax-Exempt Status”
1 – National Business Institute Seminar on Exempt Organizations
2 – Reaction of Obama Administration to the Werfel Report
A – Statement by the White House Press Secretary
B – Statement of Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew
3 – Reaction of Members of Congress to the Werfel Report and New BOLO Information
A – Baucus and Hatch Release Joint Statement
B – Camp, Boustany Statements
C – Crenshaw Statement on IRS’ 30-Day Report
D – Ways and Means Committee Democrats
E – Levin: Why Did TIGTA Ignore “Progressives”
4 – The New Front in the IRS Scandal: The Inspector General’s Office
5 – The Vanishing IRS Scandal
1 – Werfel Outlines New Directions
2 – Let’s Admit It – The Emperor is Naked: Functional Expense Reporting for Nonprofit Organizations is Voodoo
2 – How Did It All Go So Wrong – Part 2
3 – Eve Borenstein’s Views on IRS ‘Scandal’
4 – Five Takeaways from IRS Scandal
5 – IRS Scandal Predicted In June 2000 Treasury Memo
1 – Camp Announces Hearing on the Status of Internal Revenue Service’s Review of Taxpayer Targeting Practice
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Today and Tomorrow’s Attractions
3 – N.Y.U. Gives Its Stars Loans for Summer Homes
4 – Tax-Exempt Financing for Tax-Exempt Organizations:
5 – Handout for EO/For-Profit Ancillary Joint Ventures
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
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2 – Interview of the New EO Committee Chair, Rob Wexler
3 – Tea Party Patriots Audit IRS Rally At Capitol June 19
4 – Lack of IRS Oversight Lead to Fraud, Money Laundering, and Abuse by Tax-Exempt Groups
1 – Nelson Odoms, R.I.P.
2 – Threats Being Directed at Steve Miller and Lois Lerner
3 – At IRS, ‘Tea Party’ Could Mean ‘Liberal,’ Official Says
4 – IRS Supervisor in DC Scrutinized Tea Party Groups’ Cases
5 – Senate Finance Committee Releases EO Tax Reform Options
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
A – IRS Got It Right in Denial 201323025
B – Regulation Does Do Some Good
2 – The Wit and Wisdom of George F. Will, or Just Callous Stupidity?
3 – The Cincinnati Lie
4 – Rep. Elijah Cummings Clarifies: IRS Case Not ‘Solved’
5 – Cummings to Issa — Put Up or Shut Up
6 – State Legislators’ Ties to Nonprofit Groups Prove Fertile Ground for Corruption
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A – Can a (c)(3) Advocate Polygamy?
B – Does EO Regulation Do Any Good?
2 — Three Blind Mice?
3 – Issa, Cummings Continue to Trade Barbs
1 – Cincinnati IRS Agents First Raised Tea Party Issues
2 – Update from Treasury (Ruth Madrigal)
3 – Organization Supporting Illegal Activity (Polygamy) Denied (c)(3) Exemption
1 – Partisan Feuds Roll On In IRS Investigation
2 – Democratic Staff of House Oversight Committee Makes Case for No White House Involvement
3 – The Republican Response
4 – Law Professor Advocates Not Allowing a Charitable Deduction for Property Contributions
5 – NY AG Requires Broader Donor Disclosure for 501(c)(4)s
6 – Not-for-Profit Legislation Proposed in New York State
1 – Rep. Cummings Claims Evidence IRS Scandal Didn’t Originate in D.C.
2 – An IRS Scandal with Few Answers But Much Hyperbole
3 – Paz Out, Schiller In, Did Lerner Expect Cincy to Take One for the Team?
4 – The IRS: Institutionally Incapable of Self-Governance (Jay Sekulow)
5 – Misfired 2010 Email Alerted More IRS Officials to Tea Party Scrutiny
6 – Information Letters Sent to the Albuquerque Tea Party
1 – IRS Workers Say Supervisors Directed Targeting (Associated Press)
2 – IRS Agents: Washington Involved with Tea Party Targeting (CBS News)
3 – Werfel Response to Ways and Means Committee
4 – America’s Worst Charities (Tampa Bay Times)
5 – LSU Law Professor Argues for Revamped Tax-Exempt Structure for Mutual Benefit EOs
1 – The “Scandalous” IRS (Conrad Rosenberg)
2 – More Bad News (Marv Friedlander)
3 – Hershey School Settlement Is a Sweet Nothing
4 – Hershey School Alums Blast Settlement
1 – Pummeling of IRS Continues on Capitol Hill
2 – Prepared Statements from Monday’s House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
3 – Campaign Legal Center/Democracy 21 Continues to Urge IRS Action against Political (c)(4)s
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A – Milton Cerny
B – Conrad Rosenberg
C – James Lyon
2 – Horror Stories on Tap for Today’s Ways and Means Hearing, Not Much New at Yesterday’s Appropriations Hearing
3 – CNN Host Corners Darrell Issa over Claim that Obama Conspired to Target Tea Party; GOP Senators Push Back on Issa Comments
4 – IRS “Scandal” is a Hoax
5 – Management Veterans Selected to Assist New IRS Acting Commissioner Werfel; Maloy, Grams, Fisher Named to Senior Posts
6 – Litigation Developments (Susan Leahy)
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – The Miller-Lerner Years (2000-2013) — How Did It All Go So Wrong?
3 – Attorneys Offer EO Simplification Proposals for Political and Lobbying Activities
4 – A Typology of Governments and Governmental Affiliates (Ellen Aprill)
5 – Recent EO Cases in Litigation
6 – Hope and Dreams Smashed — Foundation Not Exempt
7 – Organization that Operated Donor Advised Fund Revoked by IRS (Congressional District Programs, Inc.)