Tax Rules Uncertainty May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess

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IRS singling-out Tea Party-inspired groups seeking tax exempt status might be attributable to the agency's failure to create clearer rules for political activity in the post-Citizens United electoral landscape.
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    Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess

    The controversy surrounding the IRS singling-out Tea Party-inspired groups seeking tax exempt status -- while inexcusable -- might be attributable, in part, to the agency's failure to create clearer rules for political activity in the post-Citizens United electoral landscape, and it being inappropriately tasked with enforcing campaign finance law, tax law experts say.

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