Pastors across the country will protest Internal Revenue Service restrictions on them not to talk politics in the church as they observe the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, days after the introduction of the Free Speech Fairness Act in the U.S. House to reinstate pastors’ and churches’ rights to speak freely.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to reveal White House requests for taxpayers’ private information, advancing a probe into whether administration officials targeted political opponents by revealing such information.
Obamacare’s individual mandate generated about $1.5 billion from about 7.5 million people during its first year in existence.
Justice Department officials pushed IRS employees to hand over documents before they gave the records to Congress in 2013 as investigators were attempting to dig into the tax agency’s targeting of conservative nonprofits.
IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere, the Daily Caller reported.
A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain how it lost two years’ worth of emails from former IRS employees.
A federal judge has instructed the IRS to appear before the court July 11 to explain why the IRS shouldn’t be required to allow outside experts evaluate whether the emails of former IRS employees are truly lost.
Late Wednesday, Congressional investigators published emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, which detailed her targeting a Republican Senator in 2012 for an internal audit based on an email she accidentally received.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen weathered another fiery exchange where House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) bluntly told him, “We have a problem with you and you have a problem with credibility.”
The emails of Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, who was found in contempt of Congress, may be lost forever since her hard drive has been recycled by the IRS, multiple sources told Politico.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee is set to slash IRS’s budget to $10.9 billion, $1.5 billion under President Obama’s request for the 2015 fiscal year. The budget measure’s goal is to ensure the tax agency focus on it’s “core duties”, and eliminate efforts to judge political activities and halt its enforcement of Obamacare.
According to Federal Law, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is required to keep records of all agency emails and to print out hard copies of the emails in the event of a computer crash. This further complicates the IRS claim that it “lost” emails from ex-official Lois Lerner, who was found in contempt of Congress by a vote of 231 to 187 in May.
The Internal Revenue Service claims to have lost two-years worth of emails between former IRS official Lois Lerner, who resigned under pressure for her role in the IRS targeting scandal, and outside agencies and groups.
(Orlando, FL) – The American Center for Law and Justice, an international public interest law firm, announced today it has filed a lawsuit in Florida state court against Orange County on behalf of a Christian ministry that operates The Holy Land Experience in Orlando contending that county officials are discriminating against the ministry by denying a request for exemption of property taxes.