Nonprofit May Be Under IRS Scrutiny Soon

An article in the Hill says that the nonprofit group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingington (CREW) may be the recipient of a complaint filed with the IRS. Tax experts say that CREW’s seemingly lopsided focus on Republicans will raise flags at the IRS, but they caution that determining violations of tax status so depends on the specific facts and circumstances of each case that it is impossible to predict how the IRS will act. “At least preliminarily, I think they have a good case,” said former IRS official Richard J. Wood, referring to the concerns of Republican officials. “It looks to me that they’re probably right.”
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