IRS loopholes may allow targeting scandal to continue

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Internal Revenue Service procedures for selecting nonprofit groups to be audited are filled with holes that could allow the tax agency to discriminate against certain organizations, a new report shows.

The findings suggest IRS officials could single out groups “in an unfair manner … based on an organization’s religious, educational, political, or other views,” said the Government Accountability Report, an advance copy of which was provided to the Washington Examiner.

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