IRS Nonprofit Scrutiny Included Look for ACORN Successors
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The Internal Revenue Service told its employees to watch out for applications for tax-exempt status by successors to Acorn, the now-defunct Democratic-leaning community organizing group.
Congressional Democrats, who released the recently unredacted information today, maintained that such scrutiny undermines the idea that the U.S. tax agency’s policing of political groups was limited to Tea Party organizations.