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A big mistake to empower IRS speech regulators over non-profits
As the GOP pushes to rescind funding for the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents, at least one congressional Republican appears surprisingly zealous about empowering the IRS to police the speech rights of America’s nonprofits.
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Appraiser in billion-dollar scheme pleads guilty for ‘inflating the value of the conservation easements’
North Carolina land appraiser Walter “Terry” Douglas Roberts II pleaded guilty on May 12 to conspiring to defraud the U.S. as part of a syndicated conservation easement tax shelter scheme.
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FGI on fight against IRS mass hiring initiative: 'The battle for transparency is just beginning'
The IRS claimed to have no records for a massive budget increase that would have funded 87,000 new agents and a requirement for taxpayers to report transactions as low as $600; however, through litigation the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) has found the IRS has thousands of pages of documents detailing these exact issues.