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The Louisiana GOP congressman who filed a motion to impeach IRS Commissioner John A. Koskinen before Congress’s summer recess told Breitbart News Wednesday he is ready to file his motion again as a privileged motion in the next week against the wishes of the House GOP leadership.

When Donald Trump addresses the Values Voters Summit on September 9th, he will tell the assembled Christians that it is time to get the IRS out of the pulpit. And he will encourage the assorted evangelical and Catholic activists, who have gathered in Washington, D.C. for this event, to surge out of their churches and reoccupy the public square.

Houston-based True the Vote, a prominent player in the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal from 2013 has reportedly won critical portions of its appeal in a lawsuit against the IRS.

Last week we revealed to the public more about the IRS’s historic abuse of power. We released 294 pages of FBI documents showing that top IRS officials in Washington, including Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, knew that the agency was specifically targeting “Tea Party” and other conservative organizations two full years before disclosing it to Congress and the public.

“I don’t think anything will come of it, not because there isn’t anything there, but because our system is so incredibly corrupt,” Ben Carson tells Breitbart News during an exclusive interview. “If we just continue to sweep these things under the rug, how can we ever expect any integrity and truth?”

The United States Department of Justice has asked for a federal court order to compel Facebook Inc. to provide the IRS with documents relating to undervaluing global assets transferred to its Irish holding company in a scheme to slash its tax rate to 3.5 percent.

The New York Times reports on a secret meeting from 2014, exposed thanks to sworn testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, at which a vanload of IRS officials were told to stifle their complaints about billions of dollars in flagrantly illegal ObamaCare funding.

The Internal Revenue Service hands out billions of dollars in improper tax credits each year and, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, last fiscal year was no different.

A conservative advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers won a First Amendment victory this week denying California Attorney General Kamala Harris access to the names of conservative nonprofit members and contributors.

During an interview broadcast during CNN’s coverage of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, the dinner’s host, Larry Wilmore, joked that he wouldn’t hold back on making fun of the president because “There’s not enough time to sic the IRS after me.”

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–The attorney for Deana Inman, the alleged victim of IRS revenue agent Samuel Garza, who was indicted in October on two felony counts of sexual battery, has filed a $1 million injury claim on her behalf against the United States Department of the Treasury.

Deana Inman is filing a new lawsuit in federal court accusing Internal Revenue Service revenue agent Samuel Garza of violating her civil rights.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a conservative running for the GOP nomination to replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate in November, called out his own party’s leadership for its failure to hold the IRS accountable, years after the agency refused to comply with congressional investigations into its targeting of conservative groups.

Corruption within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is facilitating illegal immigration, according to presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

IRS chief John Koskinen says the agency isn’t alerting Americans when illegal migrants steal their Social Security numbers to apply for jobs sought by other Americans.

Pop star and rapper Iggy Azalea reportedly owes the Internal Revenue Service almost $400,000 in unpaid taxes. TMZ reports the “Fancy” rapper has been hit with a tax lien for $391,056.55 stemming from income earned in 2014 — the year

President Barack Obama’s naming Judge Merrick Garland as his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, has been front and center in the nation’s headlines. Not so high profile was his nomination of five lawyers to serve on federal district court benches in Texas.

In the Republican debate on Thursday, Ted Cruz was able to explore the theme of corruption from two important angles: the corrupt intersection of Big Government and Big Business, and the devastation wrought by corrupt Democrat politics on the very city he was speaking in, Detroit.

“If we nominate Donald, we end up electing Hillary [Clinton] as president,” 2016 Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, encouraging Georgia voters at Saturday’s rally in Atlanta to vote for him over Donald Trump in the pivotal Super Tuesday election.

A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent tells Bloomberg it would be unusual for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to be audited for 12 years.

GOP presidential candidate and Texas Ted Cruz spoke to a packed house at the Harris County Lincoln-Reagan dinner. There were more than 1,200 Republicans gathered to hear their fellow Houstonian.

Testifying before Congress on Thursday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen the demands of enforcing ObamaCare for poor customer service and cybersecurity.

The government’s Obamacare program gave up $750 million in taxpayer subsidies to roughly 470,000 illegal immigrants and individuals without verified immigration status, says a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report obtained by Fox News.

Sources tell Politico that House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) plans to proceed with an investigation into federal record-keeping practices, with the blessing of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)… provided the probe proceeds with “caution” when it hits Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Despite a court preservation order, the IRS has wiped the hard drive of their former director of transfer pricing operations, Samuel Maruca.

Even the New York Times is conceding that the huge number of Americans willing to pay a special tax to escape from ObamaCare is newsworthy, although the paper tries to sugar-coat the bad news as much as possible:

Although President Barack Obama likes to snarl about the unfairness of income inequality, under his administration, the 400 top earning American families now pay about one-third less of their income in taxes than under President Ronald Reagan.

More than $46 million worth of tax refunds were erroneously issued last year due to potentially fraudulent tax returns, an audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has found.

IRS agent Samuel Garza is free on bail, after Tennessee Circuit Court Judge Joseph Woodruff slashed his bond in half. Garza is charged with two felony counts of sexual battery against a female business owner he was auditing in Fairview, Tennessee. His bond was initially set at $300,000 before being cut to $150,000 last week. He walked free on Friday.

IRS agent Samuel Garza.arrested in September on two felony charges of sexual battery committed against a female business owner during the course of an audit, was released from the Williamson County Jail late Friday.

Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the 24 nonprofits devoting more than half their total spending to influence elections between 2008 and 2013, in an apparent violation of tax rules, says a new report.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has written a letter in response to questions from Senator Ron Wyden regarding the use of cell-site simulator technology, both admitting to use of the “StingRay” devices and expressing a desire to continue doing so in

The Clinton Foundation will “amend” its tax returns for the last four years, to correct “errors in the report of donations from foreign governments,” as reported by Fox News.

IRS agent Samuel Garza is facing felony charges of sexual battery. A Williamson County Tennessee grand jury has indicted Garza, who was arrested on September 3 while caught on video during an IRS audit he was conducting of a convenience store owned by a woman in Fairview, Tennessee.

Last week we reported on the investigation by Senators Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy into potential IRS abuse of “StingRay” cell site simulation devices. Now the House of Representatives is getting in on the action.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) appeared on Saturday’s “America’s News HQ” on Fox News Channel, talking about the IRS scandal, saying the IRS has “created a culture of discrimination.” Scott said people would “challenge the system immediately” if the scandal was