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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet with Treasury officials Wednesday to discuss the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special review. White House press secretary Jay Carney says ...

An Internal Revenue Service official tried to evoke her Fifth Amendment rights in a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, but she could now be forced to face committee members after U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy questioned her tactics. Lois Lerner, who ...and more »

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress today that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse ...and more »

Recently, you may have heard that the Internal Revenue Service came under some considerable fire for targeting certain groups seeking tax-exempt status while green-lighting others (such as one run by the brother of President Obama), but did you know that ...and more »

... even as revenue slump deepens. ABC 3340 Wednesday 22nd May, 2013. A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.and more »

Washington, DC - The Internal Revenue Service today provided updated statistics showing continued growth in electronic filing of tax returns. So far in 2013, more than 43 million people have self-prepared and e-filed their tax returns from home, an increase ...and more »

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer ...and more »

The head of the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt organizations office, Lois Lerner, appeared before a U.S. House committee Wednesday but refused to answer questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Poe is particularly ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Impeachment is "not something I'm willing to take off the table," Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Wednesday after grilling a former Internal Revenue Service boss about what the White House knew about the agency targeting conservative groups.and more »

WASHINGTON--The third congressional hearing into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups got off to a tense start Wednesday when a key witness gave a defense of her own actions but declined to answer questions, triggering ...and more »

A U.S. House committee chairman said the Internal Revenue Service official who refused to answer his panel's questions today about her involvement in scrutinizing small-government groups may have waived her right to avoid testimony and might have to ...and more »

Subject to subsection (c), the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall terminate the employment of any employee of the Internal Revenue Service if there is a final administrative or judicial determination that such employee committed any act or omission ...

The senator points to the current furor over how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mishandled applications from tea party and other conservative groups for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. We certainly agree with him ...and more »

WASHINGTON — Lois Lerner, the mid-level Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over treatment of small-government groups, Wednesday invoked her right not to testify after reading a statement denying that she had committed any ...and more »

Cracks Widen In The IRS Scandal StonewallInvestor's Business DailyScandal Watch: New evidence makes it clear that the Internal Revenue Service campaign against conservatives wasn't the result of two "rogue" agents, but was directed from higher up. The question is, how high up? The claim that a couple of workers in the ...and more »

Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner had just a general comment on Tuesday for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee before invoking her rights under the fifth amendment. "I have done nothing wrong, I did not break any laws," ...and more »

Members of the media surround Lois Lerner, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) exempt organizations office, right, before the start of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, ...

Former NAACP chairman Julian Bond is defending the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party groups. (Photo: Matt Sayles/AP). Race-baiting Julian Bond is at it again. This time Bond is defending the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party ...

More than 100 folks turned up at a protest of the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday afternoon in Myrtle Beach. The Myrtle Beach Tea Party Patriots planned to protest the IRS after a recent national. More than 100 folks turned up at a protest of the Internal ...and more »

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness. IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke her constitutional right to not answer ...and more »

Former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller (R) and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George are sworn in before testifying before a full House Ways and Means committee hearing on 'Internal Revenue Service Targeting ...

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer...More >> ...and more »

We both understand the value of an Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(4) designation. That single provision has caused a national scandal and the IRS is under investigation for unfairly targeting tea party and other conservative groups who sought to use the ...and more »

Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press Created: May 21, 2013. A key figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy plans to invoke her constitutional right not to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Related Content. Stories. FILE - In this May 16 ...and more »

() - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has been under intense scrutiny since May 10, when the tax-collection agency acknowledged that workers had used partisan criteria to intensely scrutinize conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status.and more »