Bill Text: OH HCR27 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: To urge the Internal Revenue Service to correct its policy of targeting tax-exempt status applications for additional review based on the applicant organization's presumed political affiliation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 59-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-07 - Concurrence [HCR27 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HCR27-Enrolled.html
As Adopted by the Senate
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
Bill Title: To urge the Internal Revenue Service to correct its policy of targeting tax-exempt status applications for additional review based on the applicant organization's presumed political affiliation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 59-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-07 - Concurrence [HCR27 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HCR27-Enrolled.html
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Representatives Johnson, Mallory
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, R., Amstutz, Anielski, Baker, Beck, Blair, Blessing, Brenner, Brown, Buchy, Butler, Damschroder, Derickson, Dovilla, Fedor, Grossman, Hackett, Hagan, C., Hall, Hayes, Hood, Hottinger, Huffman, Lynch, McClain, McGregor, Perales, Pillich, Retherford, Roegner, Romanchuk, Rosenberger, Ruhl, Scherer, Sears, Slaby, Smith, Sprague, Terhar, Thompson, Young Speaker Batchelder
Senators Schaffer, Beagle, Balderson, Burke, Coley, Eklund, Faber, Gardner, Hite, Hughes, Jones, Jordan, LaRose, Lehner, Obhof, Oelslager, Seitz, Uecker, Widener
To urge the Internal Revenue Service to correct its | 1 |
policy of targeting tax-exempt status applications | 2 |
for additional review based on the applicant | 3 |
organization's presumed political affiliation. | 4 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, A recent report issued by the federal Treasury | 5 |
Inspector General for Tax Administration ("Inspector General") | 6 |
found that, beginning in 2010, the Internal Revenue Service | 7 |
("IRS") developed and used inappropriate criteria to review the | 8 |
applications of organizations applying for tax-exempt status; and | 9 |
WHEREAS, Such criteria were based on the political names or | 10 |
policy positions of the applicant organizations; for example, the | 11 |
IRS asked employees to give additional scrutiny to applications | 12 |
from groups whose name included "Tea Party" or other | 13 |
"political-sounding" words; and | 14 |
WHEREAS, The Inspector General found that organizations that | 15 |
applied for tax-exempt status and had their application flagged | 16 |
for further review experienced substantial delays and were asked | 17 |
to supply unnecessary information; and | 18 |
WHEREAS, According to the Inspector General, the IRS should | 19 |
take corrective actions to ensure that applications are processed | 20 |
without unreasonable delay in a fair and impartial manner in the | 21 |
future; now therefore be it | 22 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 23 |
of the State of Ohio, urge the IRS to take immediate action to | 24 |
correct its policies and cease targeting organizations applying | 25 |
for tax-exempt status based on the organization's political | 26 |
affiliation; and be it further | 27 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives | 28 |
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the | 29 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury, the Acting Commissioner | 30 |
of Internal Revenue, and the news media of Ohio. | 31 |