The IRS Has Some Explaining to Do
The official end of the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation of the NAACP was as inexplicable as its beginning. Even though the organization was cleared of allegations that it had violated federal law on partisan campaigning, the way the group was treated raises important issues about how the…
By Frances R. Hill
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Tax-Exempt ‘Shells’ and Campaign-Finance Reform
The recently suspended Senate probe into the financing of political campaigns showed how tax-exempt organizations were used as cogs in the money machine that fueled the partisan political wars of 1996. Although the committee’s chairman, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, cut short the proceedings, it is…
By Frances R. Hill
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