NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE – What about your interns?
That in effect was the question the IRS asked a longstanding conservative organization between 2011 and 2012, according to documents obtained byNational Review Online. The tax-collecting agency sought to identify and track student interns at the Leadership Institute, a conservative educational organization based in Virginia.
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At around the same time the IRS began its “inappropriate targeting” of conservative organizations applying for nonprofit status — a practice detailed in a Treasury Department inspector general’s report published Tuesday — the agency conducted an audit of the Leadership Institute. The institute has offered workshops, seminars, internships, and other training programs for young conservatives and grassroots activists since its founding in 1979.
The timing of the audit, which focused on the group’s 2008 tax return, could indicate that the IRS targeting went beyond those applying for tax-exempt status to include existing conservative groups. (The number of conservative groups known to have been targeted has already grown from about 75, as initially claimed, to nearly 500.)
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