CAIR got tax-exempt status reinstated despite failure to file required report for 3 years
Ever heard of an IRS Form 990?
Unless you're a tax attorney or run a non-profit, probably not. It's an exhaustive report (12 pages) that every non-profit org must submit to the IRS every year in order to keep their tax-exempt status.
This status is absolutely CRUCIAL to an organization's ability to get donations because it's what lets donors take a tax deduction for their donation. Lose that and most non-profits would have a much harder time raising funds.
You'd think an organization that failed to file a 990 would automatically lose its tax-exempt status. Particularly if it failed to file for three years in a row.
Of course it won't surprise you to learn that under the corrupt hand of Duh Won some tax-exempts are more equal than others.
F'rinstance, if your org had the words "Tea Party" in its name, Holly Paz, Lois Lerner and the rest of the IRS scofflaws would simply sit on your application for years. Ah, but if you were a group favored by the Obozo administration such minor slips were ignored.
Specifically, the "Council on American-Islamic Relations" (CAIR) didn't file the required 990 for three years in a row and the IRS shrugged. (The organization had its exempt status revoked in 2011 for other reasons.) In fact, just before the 2012 election the IRS quietly reinstated the crucial tax-exempt status, despite the organization's willful failure to file the required disclosure for 3 years.
You'd think that for the IRS to reinstate CAIR's tax-exempt status, the organization would have to have filed the missing returns. But CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, gloating about the crucial reinstatement, claimed not to know anything about what paperwork, including tax returns, had been filed to regain the exempt status.
By law, the nonprofit group must make copies of its tax returns available to the public. Several news outlets, including Politico and USA Today, have asked CAIR for copies of its missing 2007-10 returns, but CAIR has been unable to produce them. Curiouser still, CAIR's latest tax return is only a partial filing — covering the period from Aug. 9, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2011.
If you or I fail to file required shit with the IRS we quickly get a nasty letter threatening to seize our property unless we file and/or pay up. (I once got such a letter over a whopping five-dollar underpayment!) But if you're an Islamic organization able to steer millions of foreign dollars to Obama and the Dems, you can figuratively tell the IRS to fuck off with no apparent consequences.
We are no longer a nation of laws. To put it another way: Connected organizations can flout the law without any consequences.
Unless you're a tax attorney or run a non-profit, probably not. It's an exhaustive report (12 pages) that every non-profit org must submit to the IRS every year in order to keep their tax-exempt status.
This status is absolutely CRUCIAL to an organization's ability to get donations because it's what lets donors take a tax deduction for their donation. Lose that and most non-profits would have a much harder time raising funds.
You'd think an organization that failed to file a 990 would automatically lose its tax-exempt status. Particularly if it failed to file for three years in a row.
Of course it won't surprise you to learn that under the corrupt hand of Duh Won some tax-exempts are more equal than others.
F'rinstance, if your org had the words "Tea Party" in its name, Holly Paz, Lois Lerner and the rest of the IRS scofflaws would simply sit on your application for years. Ah, but if you were a group favored by the Obozo administration such minor slips were ignored.
Specifically, the "Council on American-Islamic Relations" (CAIR) didn't file the required 990 for three years in a row and the IRS shrugged. (The organization had its exempt status revoked in 2011 for other reasons.) In fact, just before the 2012 election the IRS quietly reinstated the crucial tax-exempt status, despite the organization's willful failure to file the required disclosure for 3 years.
You'd think that for the IRS to reinstate CAIR's tax-exempt status, the organization would have to have filed the missing returns. But CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, gloating about the crucial reinstatement, claimed not to know anything about what paperwork, including tax returns, had been filed to regain the exempt status.
By law, the nonprofit group must make copies of its tax returns available to the public. Several news outlets, including Politico and USA Today, have asked CAIR for copies of its missing 2007-10 returns, but CAIR has been unable to produce them. Curiouser still, CAIR's latest tax return is only a partial filing — covering the period from Aug. 9, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2011.
If you or I fail to file required shit with the IRS we quickly get a nasty letter threatening to seize our property unless we file and/or pay up. (I once got such a letter over a whopping five-dollar underpayment!) But if you're an Islamic organization able to steer millions of foreign dollars to Obama and the Dems, you can figuratively tell the IRS to fuck off with no apparent consequences.
We are no longer a nation of laws. To put it another way: Connected organizations can flout the law without any consequences.
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