Tag: IRS

Issa: IRS Targeting ‘Still Happening’

Jim Swift · July 24, 2015 2:26 pm

Washington Secrets

House chairman: Documents prove IRS ‘political targeting’ of conservatives

Paul Bedard · July 24, 2015 1:21 pm

"It's not my role to preempt those investigations and conclude one way or the other," said IRSÂ Commissioner John Koskinen. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

IRS back under fire on Tea Party targeting

Sarah Bedford · July 24, 2015 4:01 am

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner exercises her Fifth Amendment right not to speak about the IRS targeting investigation before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building March 5, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

IRS loopholes may allow targeting scandal to continue

Sarah Bedford · July 23, 2015 11:36 am

Angel Rivera (L) and his wife Wilma Rivera sit with, Amada cantera, an insurance agent with Sunshine Life and Health Advisors as they try to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act at the kiosk setup at the Mall of Americas on December 22, 2013 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Fewer people expected to pay Obamacare penalties in 2016

Robert King · July 22, 2015 4:01 am

Mercy Cabrera, an insurance agent with Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, speaks on the phone as she helps a person with information about an insurance policy under the Affordable Care Act at the store setup in the Westland Mall on November 14, 2013 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Taxpayers fork over $1.5 billion in Obamacare penalties

Robert King · July 21, 2015 6:46 pm

Paul released a humorous video on YouTube Tuesday detailing his plan to kill the tax code-"all 70,000 pages of it"-and replace it with his "Fair and Flat Tax" alternative. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Rand Paul literally ‘blows up the tax code’ in latest campaign ad

Gabby Morrongiello · July 21, 2015 6:13 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Monday demanded an investigation by a federal watchdog on Obamacare enrollees who received advanced tax credits but didn't file their taxes.Â (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hatch demands probe of $2.4 billion in Obamacare credits

Robert King · July 21, 2015 4:01 am

The IRS can crack down on you -- and try to keep your money -- if your deposits are of an amount it deems suspicious. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

The IRS steals money from businessmen for making deposits that are too small

Timothy P. Carney · July 20, 2015 6:25 pm

David Goldston, director of government affairs with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said Monday the "complaint is an effort to distract attention from Senator Kirk's vote." (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Republicans want IRS to revoke green group’s tax-exempt status

Zack Colman · July 13, 2015 3:25 pm

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner, accompanied by her attorney is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Midnight raids, secret subpoenas: IRS’ Lerner close friends with leader who targeted Scott Walker

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 6:41 pm

Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, left, and Lois Lerner, right, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

With new documents, stench of IRS scandal reaches into its third year

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2015 4:01 am