Reuters: Politics: House Republicans: IRS documents show bias against conservatives

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House Republicans: IRS documents show bias against conservatives Jul 31st 2013, 00:31 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Obama seeks second-term jolt with economic speech Wed, Jul 24 2013 Special report: How big tech stays offline on tax Tue, Jul 23 2013 Analysis: Republicans could see more bruising Senate primaries Thu, Jul 18 2013 In Tea Party probe, IRS interviews show no political bias Tue, Jul 16 2013 IRS workers, watchdog in IRS scrutiny case to face U.S. lawmakers Mon, Jul 15 2013 Analysis & Opinion Breakingviews: Elan deal's tax zeal Will conservatives tackle the racists in their midst? A general view of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Building in Washington, May 14, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:31pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Republicans on Tuesday said an analysis of treatment of tax-exempt groups by the Internal Revenue Service showed conservative groups faced harsher scrutiny, a claim Democrats challenged. Republicans on the House Ways and Means committee said their analysis of internal IRS documents shows that groups whose name includes the phrases "conservative," "Tea Party" or "Patriot" received much more scrutiny than groups containing the word "progressive." The analysis said conservative groups were asked three times as many questions on average than progressives and less than half of conservative groups received approval, while all progressive groups were approved. Committee Chairman Dave Camp, a Republican from Michigan, said the analysis was just the "tip of the iceberg" as the committee had received less than 3 percent of the documents requested. Representative Sander Levin, the top Democrat on the committee criticized the Republican analysis, saying it offered an unspecified and unverified subset of tax-exemption applications to which only Republican committee members have access. Controversy erupted on May 10 when an IRS official apologized for added scrutiny and delay given to Tea Party and other conservative groups seeking tax exemptions under a section of the tax code that allows limited political activity. (Reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by Stacey Joyce) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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