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Senior Treasury officials were notified of an investigation over complaints that the Internal Revenue Service was singling out Tea Party groups applying for non-profit status in June 2012. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George ...and more »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three congressional committees and the Department of Justice are investigating the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status as the scandal distracts from President Barack Obama's ...and more »

- WASHINGTON — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said, disclosing that ...and more »

THE reported targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of opponents of conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status has led some to revisit the long history of presidents, or their administrations, using tax regulations to punish enemies. Some have ...and more »

Obama internal revenue service The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of President Barack Obama has plunged into the nightmare of oppression pioneered by Lyndon Johnson and perfected by Richard Nixon of an unparalleled inquisition into the affairs of ...and more »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy ...and more »

- "The admission by the Obama administration that the Internal Revenue Service targeted political opponents echoes some of the most shameful abuses of government power in 20th-century American history. Today, we are left with serious questions: who is ...and more »

President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. The president spoke after discussing the IRS matter with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck. Republicans in Congress are livid with the IRS over its ...and more »

Even after the dismissal of the acting IRS Commissioner and a top deputy who oversaw the tax-exempt division, the problems at the Internal Revenue Service seem to keep growing. 1. Related Content. Stories. AP Photo: White House Press Secretary Jay ...and more »

Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, left, holds up a binder with documents about a constituent's application to the IRS that was delayed, on Capitol Hill in Washington during the committee's Friday hearing on the extra scrutiny the Internal Revenue Service gave tea party and ...and more »

Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller testifies on Capitol Hill at a hearing on Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, May 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama fires IRS chief · In IRS scandal, why is any political group exempt from taxes?and more »

- Mike Kelly, R-Pa., center, questions the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller, lower right, as the Republican-run committee held a hearing on the extra scrutiny the Internal Revenue Service gave Tea Party and other conservative groups ...and more »

The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified Friday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency's recently ...and more »

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday May 15, 2013. The president spoke after discussing the IRS ...and more »

Steven Miller, right, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service who has resigned, testifies Friday before the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington. T.J. Kirkpatrick / New York Times News Service ...and more »

WASHINGTON — The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to ...and more »

Now the group's moderator, former Fort Lauderdale Mayor Robert Dressler, thinks his group may have been caught up in the same Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups that has created an uproar nationally. That's even though the forum ...and more »

The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. But during the ...and more »

WASHINGTON – The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to ...and more »

The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections. But members of Congress are questioning why they weren't told ...and more »

WASHINGTON—Republicans think the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) controversy is the magic weapon for beating up Democrats, because nothing resonates with the American public like potential IRS abuse. Revelations that the agency targeted ...and more »

WASHINGTON—Addressing the scandal exposed at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week, President Barack Obama announced the resignation of the agency's acting commissioner, adding: “I'll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this ...and more »

Ousted IRS acting Commissioner Steve Miller arrives on Capitol Hill to testify Friday before the House Ways and Means Committee on the Internal Revenue Service practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. / Charles ...and more »

CAPITOL HILL — Republican lawmakers and fiscally conservative Tea Party leaders are vowing to keep up the pressure on the White House to see if it was involved with the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative Tea Party groups for extra ...and more »