Three-year-old allegations of political influence at the Internal Revenue Service are being revived as two House committees move toward punishing the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen. The House Oversight Committee this week voted on party lines to censure Koskinen. The House Judiciary Committee holds its second hearing next week on whether to impeach him. “This all started with the IRS using its authorities to target certain conservative groups for their beliefs,” Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said in prepared testimony to the Judiciary panel. This has been the accusation against the IRS since 2013, when Lois Lerner — head of the office that reviewed applications for tax-exempt status — admitted that the agency put additional scrutiny into the applications for nonprofit tax status of conservative and Tea Party groups.
Court Documents Show The IRS Focused Scrutiny On Conservative Groups
