IRS keeps Albuquerque Tea Party in limbo 5 years after tax-exempt status application

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times:

Before there were the lost Lerner emails, the congressional hearings and the retaliatory budget cuts, there was the Albuquerque Tea Party, a group of politically minded folks in New Mexico who wanted to get together and share ideas for taking back their country. The IRS had other ideas about them.

 

Five years after the Albuquerque Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status under section 501©(4) of the tax code, they remain in limbo — their application apparently no closer to being approved or denied than it was the day they mailed it to the IRS on Dec. 29, 2009.

 

They have watched as other groups have been approved in less time, and they say they are mystified as to why the application has been held up so long, after they provided hundreds of pages of evidence and documents that the IRS requested.

 

“If the IRS, with its massive staff, read only 1/2 of a page daily of all the paperwork we have had to send them, they could have read it all three years ago,” Rick Harbaugh, secretary of the board of the Albuquerque group, said in an email describing his group’s five-year battle with the tax agency.

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"What application? Oh, that application..."

[Cyber_Liberty]

Nobody cares. Boehner didn't, Issa didn't and I'm sure Chaffetz isn't going to care much either.