IRS MISSTATEMENTS

The number of misstatements (lies) by the IRS is beginning to stretch the imagination.  Now we find out the IRS had a "political" test to determine the approval of various groups applying for tax exemption status.

The Internal Revenue Service used a numerical test for deciding whether nonprofit groups were too political to qualify for a tax exemption, said an agency employee, contradicting a former IRS executive’s statement.

Groups that devoted no more than 49 percent of their activities to politics were deemed acceptable, IRS employee Elizabeth Hofacre told congressional investigators, according to a transcript reviewed by Bloomberg News. Those decisions are at the center of the controversy about the agency’s extra scrutiny of anti-tax Tea Party groups’ applications.