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Stop right there and read your own post carefully.

If those groups are indeed "political opponents" of the current administration, then the IRS has good reason to believe those groups are "political". Political groups have a different tax status than a group that is a church or other non-profit fraternal organizations. That is the law, and the IRS is correct to scrutinize them, in order to properly ascertain what category they fall under.

Slam dunk for the IRS, right there.




All 75 (ie: 100%) of the groups that the IRS selected for an audit based on their name were granted tax-exempt status by the IRS. So no, that is not a good criteria to base an audit on. And I find it appalling that you believe that it is acceptable to treat differently anyone the current administration thinks is their political opponent... and that you think it's a "slam dunk" that the IRS wasted resources auditing 75 groups, and then granted every single one of their applications.




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