{"id":2836,"date":"2013-06-06T07:46:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2013-06-06T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:46:52","slug":"report-says-irs-approved-tax-exempt-status-for-twice-as-many-conservative-groups-as-liberal-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/06\/report-says-irs-approved-tax-exempt-status-for-twice-as-many-conservative-groups-as-liberal-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Says IRS Approved Tax-Exempt Status For Twice as Many Conservative Groups as Liberal Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the newsletter Tax Note<\/em>s. As we all know by now, the IRS applies extra scrutiny to a group applying for tax-exempt status if it \"\"suspects the group is political in nature. In 2010, they decided that having “tea party” in a group’s name was sufficient to raise a red flag.<\/p>\n

The Inspector General’s report about this included an audit of 298 groups that had been given special scrutiny. Of these, 96 had “tea party,” “patriots,” or “9-12 project” in their names. But that’s all we know. We have no idea how many of the 298 groups were liberal and how many were conservative, because the IRS doesn’t release the name of groups that have applied for tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n

However, the IRS does publish the names of groups that have received special scrutiny and been approved<\/em> for tax-exempt status. They recently released a list of 176 organizations that have been approved since 2010, so Martin Sullivan checked each one to figure out if it was liberal or conservative. Here’s what he found:<\/a><\/p>\n