Tag: IRS

Department of Justice officials appear to be going to unusual lengths to prevent a former IRS attorney from talking to Congress about his time working for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal. (iStock)

Justice Department blocking House panel from talking to former IRS attorney

Mark Tapscott · September 5, 2014 9:00 am

49 percent of the complaints received in 2012 and 2013 saw no work done on them for at least two months, the report said.

Half of complaints about tax preparers gather dust at IRS for months, IG says

Mark Tapscott · September 4, 2014 7:19 pm

A customer, left, is helped at an H&R Block office in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Beltway Confidential

H&R Block CEO says Obamacare to add ‘significant complexity’ to tax season

Philip Klein · September 3, 2014 9:23 pm

Two federal judges acting within 24 hours of each other last Thursday and Friday served notice on the IRS that it's time to pay up. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

IRS scandal needs a special prosecutor

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 9:00 pm

On Friday, the Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case concerning the health care law's subsidies to federal exchanges, after a panel on the court sided with challengers last month.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Obamacare to wreak havoc during tax season

Rep. Diane Black · August 27, 2014 7:32 pm

In June, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress he had "moved heaven and earth" in his effort to recover Lois Lerner's emails, which were believed lost after her hard drive was "scratched" and then scrapped. (iStock)

Why did the government wait until now to disclose doomsday email backup?

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 1:30 am

Lois Lerner emails obtained from the House Ways and Means Committee are displayed in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Is there no end to the Obama administration’s duplicity in the IRS scandal?

Mark Tapscott · August 26, 2014 12:19 pm

Attorneys for the Justice Department say that they have copies of every electronic message ever sent from Lois Lerner, a former top IRS official who is a key figure in a targeting scandal involving conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Lois Lerner’s emails aren’t missing after all, lawyers say

Susan Ferrechio · August 25, 2014 9:41 pm

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)

The case for impeaching Lois Lerner and other lawbreakers at the IRS

Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Fitzgibbons · August 20, 2014 6:37 pm

Nonprofit watchdog group Cause of Action is challenging the White House in a federal lawsuit against 12 federal agencies.ÃÂ (iStock image)

Cause of Action sues 12 departments that allowed White House to intervene in FOIA responses

Kelly Cohen · August 18, 2014 7:04 pm

Thanks to U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan, Americans may learn why a key IRS employee's emails remain beyond the reach of Congress. (iStock)

Federal judge tells IRS to come clean on targeting, again: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 10:00 pm

IRS failed to do background checks on contractors

IRS failed to do background checks on contractors

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 14, 2014 9:05 pm