Internal Revenue Service

IRS not only agency in disarray

2013-05-19 12:30:00

This is probably the tip of the iceberg ("Report finds disarray at IRS," May 15). Most government employees believe in large government where can you work and get a pension that you do not pay into and have health care that you do not pay into as well...

White House is lying or clueless

2013-05-19 05:00:00

The scandals at the White House in the last few days and the lack of knowing what was going on does not wash ("IRS head forced to go," May 16). The IRS in Ohio targets conservative groups, but the interim head of the IRS located in Washington gets...

President talks economy, jobs in Baltimore

2013-05-17 18:25:00

As he traveled through Baltimore to promote his jobs agenda on Friday, President Barack Obama found himself sitting near a 29-year-old man who was uncertain how to reset his life after being released from prison two years ago. In one of the few...

The real IRS scandal

2013-05-18 05:00:00

The real scandal is why the IRS approved for tax-exempt status organizations that were plainly political and not "social welfare" organizations, as section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code requires ("Taxing the tea party," May 14). The GOP's phony...

Harris links IRS scandal to Obamacare in address

2013-05-18 06:23:00

Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland used a rare opportunity to speak on behalf of the Republican Party on Saturday to tie the unfolding IRS scandal to President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul of the nation's health care system. Noting that the Internal...

Amid scandal, Obama focuses on jobs in Baltimore

2013-05-17 12:07:00

President Barack Obama told several hundred people gathered at a Baltimore manufacturing plant on Friday that he would keep his administration focused on the economic recovery -- despite a series of political scandals that have rocked the administration...

Obama's 'Katrina moment'

2013-05-17 06:05:00

It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...

Scandals put presidential credibility on the line

2013-05-17 00:00:00

When the storm of administration scandals first hit President Barack Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS and...

What was the IRS thinking?

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Well, this is a fine mess. After years of moaning about various "conspiracies" against them, conservative activists finally have a real (i.e., not manufactured by Fox or inflated by Rush Limbaugh) piece of evidence to take before the court of public...

IRS correct to target questionable groups

2013-05-15 12:45:00

Sorry, Baltimore Sun, but for once I cannot agree with your position on the Internal Revenue Service enforcing the law on outfits that have been breaking the law for years ("Taxing the tea party," May 14). Tea party groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,...

Canceling the Blue Angels flyover is low on the list of outrages

2013-05-14 12:00:00

In her column "An Annapolis tradition, grounded" (May 13) Susan Reimer laments the fact that the Blue Angels flyover at the graduation ceremonies for cadets was canceled, and she thinks Congress should be ashamed for cutting funds for such a trivial...

Taxing the tea party

2013-05-13 10:22:00

Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an...

Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller is pictured at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 17, 2013.

2013-05-17 07:13:00

Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller leaves a House Ways and Means Committee hearing.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Steven Miller, right, who was forced out as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, pauses while speaking during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Friday with J. Russell George, U.S. Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

2013-05-17 00:00:00