Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury PLRs, TAMs, and Denial Letters

EO Tax Journal 2013-177

1 – More on IRS Employees Getting Sued

2 – Gut-Wrenching Times in EO Division?

3 – Jeff Tenenbaum Explains NFL’s Exempt Status to Fox Viewers

4 – Senate Finance Committee Member Tom Coburn, M.D., R-Okla., Targets Sports Leagues with New Bill

5 – Donor to Donee Giving Mechanism Doesn’t Pass Muster

Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury The EOTJ Mailbag

EO Tax Journal 2013-172

1 – The EOTJ Mailbag

2 – My Comments on Wednesday’s Ways and Means Hearing and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s ‘Interim Update’

3 – An Important Development in ‘IRS Scandal,’ Thanks to Leaker

4 – Leaked Document Undermines Republicans’ Case and Highlights Lack of IRS Political Motivation, Say House Ways and Means Democrats

Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury

EO Tax Journal 2013-171

1 – Yesterday’s Hearing

A – Opening Statement of Chairman Charles Boustany, JR. MD (R-LA)
Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means

B – Opening Statement or Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA)
Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means

C – Prepared Statement of IRS Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel

2 – Oversight Committee Report Says IRS ‘Engaged in Inappropriate and Disparate Treatment of Conservative-Oriented Applicants’

Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury PLRs, TAMs, and Denial Letters Transcripts (ABA EO Committee)

EO Tax Journal 2013-166

1 – Boustany Announces Hearing on the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division Post-TIGTA Audit

2 – Form 990 Availability Resumes; Filers Urged Not to Include Social Security Numbers

3 – A Short History of Exemption for Hospitals — and Why We have Section 501(r)

4 – Fact-packed Section 4958 PLR Released

5 – Is Inurement Rampant when Federal and State Dollars Go to Nonprofits?