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Thursday, February 16, 2012

IRS Won’t Grant Richmond Tea Party Tax Exempt Status

After applying for tax-exempt 501(c)(4)status over two years ago, the IRS has the Richmond Tea Party on it's stall-list via endless request for more information, including a totally inappropriate request for a full list of donors and volunteers.

The Richmond Tea Party claims this kerfuffle with the IRS reinforces their view of the government. “This illustrates everything the American people find unacceptable from their government,” the group says. “A simple request for tax-exempt status should not take years to complete, involve hundreds of pages of documentation, require hundreds of volunteer hours, and request private information we should never have to disclose. This grants the Federal Government the dangerous power to selectively stymie those voices with which they disagree, bogging them down in endless paperwork and compliance costs so that they are unable to spend time serving the principles they founded their organization to advance.”

Keep this in mind when you read about the White House and (tax excempt) Media Matters conspiring to manage the new for the benefit of the Obama regime.

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