Not only did the Internal Revenue Service obstruct the tax-exempt status applications of conservative and tea-party organizations during the 2012 election campaign, new documents obtained through a lawsuit reveal the agency also audited the non-profits’ donors.
The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch says the paperwork shows “the IRS used donor lists to tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits.”
The organization obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, claiming individuals were selected for audits after they appeared on donors lists for tea-party groups and other non-profits.
“These documents that we had to force out of the IRS prove that the agency used donor lists to audit supporters of organizations engaged in First Amendment-protected lawful political speech,” said Tom Fitton, president of the group. “And the snarky comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS show that the IRS was targeting critics of the Obama administration.
Fitton said President Obama “may want to continue to lie about his IRS scandal.”
“These documents tell the truth – his IRS hated conservatives and was willing to illegally tax and audit citizens to shut down opposition to Barack Obama’s policies and re-election,” Fitton said.
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