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1 hr ago | Boston Herald

Improving economy alters political landscape

Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch and robs Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Housing, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, John McCain, Opinion

2 hrs ago | Wall Street Journal

Inside IRS Unit Under Fire

WSJ's Matthew Rose on three reasons the IRS story is staying in the spotlight: It's a genuine scandal; it involves a part of government that many people loathe; and it plays into the GOP narrative on government overreach.

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Fri May 24, 2013

Redlands Daily Facts

California ranks near the bottom in new report on economic policies

Employees at Cardinal Labortories Inc., an Azusa manufacturer and distributor of pet care products, are shown here.

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Related Topix: California, Azusa, CA

SFGate

Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov't

This March 22, 2013 file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures

Rome News

IRS replaces official who revealed targeting

In this May 22, 2013, photo, Lois Lerner listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Sander Levin

The Daily News Journal

IRS audited thousands of adoptive families

A report from the IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service says that 90% of families who claimed the adoption tax credit during the 2012 filing season had their returns flagged for further review.

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Related Topix: Clarksville, TN, Columbia, TN

KMIZ

The 'chicken poop' credit and other bad tax breaks

The fuss over Apple's complex strategies to avoid taxes put the corporate tax code on display in all its convoluted glory this week.

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Bradenton.com

Scandal draws questions about IRS role in enforcing Obamacare

The Internal Revenue Service is an important cog in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly shorthanded as Obamacare.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Health Insurance, Health, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Mitch McConnell

KSDK-TV Saint Louis

Larry Conners fired over Facebook posting

A veteran TV anchorman has been fired in the wake of comments he made on Facebook claiming "pressure" by the IRS following his 2012 interview with President Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Thu May 23, 2013

Athens Banner-Herald

Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute

Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen.

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Related Topix: African-American, US Governors, Paul LePage, Healthcare Law, Law

WIS-TV Columbia

AG: 2 SC groups say they were targeted by IRS

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he's gotten calls from two conservative groups that feel they were wrongfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

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Related Topix: Tea Party, US News

Lethbridge Herald

Mary J. Blige faces $3.4M federal tax lien in NJ, says she's trying to resolve

In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, Mary J. Blige preforms during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 milion tax lien by the IRS.

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Related Topix: Cresskill, NJ, Hackensack, NJ

Turnto10.com

Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far

Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, US Senate, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch

Sister Toldjah

#IRS scandal: Rogue agents in Cincinatti apparently not so rogue

It's kind of hard to "go rogue" when you're only doing what your superiors in Washington , D.C., are telling you to do: From the outset, Internal Revenue Service lawyers based in Washington, D.C., provided important guidance on the handling of tea-party groups' applications for tax-exempt status, according to both IRS sources and the inspector ... (more)

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Related Topix: Washington, DC

KMIZ

4 federal agencies to shut Friday

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, US News

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

IRS hits Miccosukee tribe with $170M tax bill

The Internal Revenue Service has hit the Miccosukee Indians with a $170 million bill for failing to report and withhold taxes from its distribution of gambling profits to tribal members.

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Wed May 22, 2013

SavannahNow

Broke no laws, IRS official says _ then takes 5th

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa

KRMG-AM Tulsa

Carney: Criticism of IRS response 'legitimate'

President Barack Obama 's spokesman says the White House is facing "legitimate criticisms" for its shifting accounts about who knew what about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups, and when they knew it.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Ukiah Daily Journal

Congressional panel grills CEO Tim Cook on Apple's tax practices

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies at a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013.

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Related Topix: Computers, US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican

Lincoln Daily News

GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups

When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Non-Profit, Fort Bend County, TX, US Politics, US News, Representative Aaron Schock, Republican, US House of Representatives