JCT tables follow. (Prior chart was for 2027 and calculated from JCT tables.) 2/

For more details on the law, see this Tax Law Center post. Overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress have enacted laws making it a crime for the President and his staff to request an audit or investigation of a particular taxpayer. 3/3 taxlawcenter.org/blog/irs-sta...

If the President can announce that he is revoking the tax-exempt status of a charity, we have crossed a rubicon that has no clear end. What will stop him or any President from weaponizing the IRS to intimidate any political opponent or group he dislikes into silence? 2/3

This violate the law (which was passed by a vote of 96-2 in the Senate in 1998) that makes it a crime for the President and his political advisors to directly or indirectly interfere in IRS audits or investigations. 11/11 medium.com/@taxlawcente...

Now R lawmakers are silent when the President – the most political actor of all! – is pressuring the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status of nonprofits he doesn’t like. 10/

One of the recommendations from the bipartisan Senate Finance Committee report was that *anyone* with influence over whether and how tax exempts are reviewed and audited should be precluded from participating in political work, even when off-duty. 9/

The IRS was defunded for a decade to a large extent in response. 8/ www.cbpp.org/charts/budge...

Despite the fact that it is not crazy (except as a political matter) to select applications for tax exempt status for review about whether they intend to abide by lobbying limits if their name includes terms associated with electioneering, 7/

Despite the fact that these weren’t even audits but rather keywords were used in triaging applications for tax-exempt status, 6/

Despite the fact that there was no evidence of interference by political appointees (let alone the WH or President!), despite the fact that the IRS voluntarily disclosed this information without prompting, 5/