Beyond Lois Lerner: Is Europe Now Writing American Tax Policy?
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Who was Lois Lerner? She was at the center of the last big scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. It occurred during the Obama years. Ms. Lerner was head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS. She learned that groups with Tea Party, Patriot, or 9/12 sentiments were being targeted for extra IRS scrutiny and she defended that scrutiny.
Then the scandal broke amid political scorched heat from conservatives whose tax exempt status was legal. And Ms. Lerner and the IRS investigated and said that the special scrutiny of conservatives was inappropriate, but Ms. Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right in testimony on the Hill and refused to resign.
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