| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare BlueCross/BlueShield tax took effect. |
01/01/2010 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare excise tax on charitable hospitals took effect. |
03/23/2010 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare "Black Liquor" Tax hike took effect. |
03/23/2010 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date ObamaCare codified the "economic substance doctrine," which disallowed unspecified tax deductions. |
03/23/2010 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the tax on Indoor Tanning Services took effect. |
07/01/2010 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Medicine Cabinet Tax took effect. |
01/01/2011 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Tax on Innovator Drug Companies took effect. |
01/01/2011 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare HSA Withdrawal Tax took effect. |
01/01/2011 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite publicly attacking tax breaks for private jet owners, Obama instead lowered them -- as a favor for his friend Warren Buffett (primary owner of NetJets). |
03/08/2012 |
The Huffington Post |
| The IRS seized the bank accounts of a small New York business, claiming it could take the money due to the business having made many small bank deposits. |
05/01/2012 |
The Daily Signal |
| After a whistleblower exposed abuse and fraud at an IRS agency that gives taxpayer IDs to immigrants (often illegal), the IRS was itself audited. |
07/02/2012 |
WTHR |
| Idaho businessman Frank VanderSloot donated to a group supporting Romney; after Obama's campaign website attacked him personally, the IRS audited him, and the Department of Labor likewise audited his company. |
07/19/2012 |
The Wall Street Journal |
| Clamed in a 60 Minutes interview he hadn't raised taxes, even as raised taxes on tobacco |
09/24/2012 |
The New York Sun |
| Claimed in a 60 Minutes interview he hadn't raised taxes, even as he imposed a new tax on tanning salons |
09/24/2012 |
The New York Sun |
| Claimed in a 60 Minutes interview taxes were lowest in 50 years; in fact the opposite was true |
09/24/2012 |
The New York Sun |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Surtax on Investment Income took effect. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers took effect. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date eliminated a tax deduction for employer provided retirement Rx coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare $500K Annual Exec Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives took effect. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the Medical Itemized Deduction was reduced. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promie not to raises taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Flexible Spending Account Cap (aka the "Special Needs Kids Tax") took effect. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax took effect. |
01/01/2013 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| The IRS, despite having no actual authority to do so, began demanding tax preparers pay licensing fees. |
01/24/2013 |
The Institute for Justice |
| IRS agents seized almost $1 million from an Iraq war vet in Athens, Ga., which they justified as a result of his having made many deposits under $10,000. Despite no unlawful activity, the IRS refused to give back his money, only surrendering the majority |
04/01/2013 |
The Daily Signal |
| The IRS's Lois Lerner announced the agency had unfairly targeted conservative groups and apologized -- but Obama later claimed this was a "phony scandal." |
05/10/2013 |
Associated Press |
| While the IRS kept Tea Party groups' tax exempt applications in limbo during the 2012 election, groups with "progress" or "progressive" in the title were ushered through quickly. |
05/13/2013 |
USA Today |
| The IRS leaked confidential information on conservative groups to ProPublica. |
05/14/2013 |
The Washington Post |
| As an example of the kind of pressure applied to conservative groups, the IRS asked a Tea Party group about everything its members read. |
05/14/2013 |
ABC News |
| After St. Louis reporter Larry Conners gave Obama a tough interview, the IRS "hammered him" with audits. |
05/14/2013 |
RedState |
| After a prominent Catholic wrote an oped attacking the Obama Administration, she was audited (although not her husband despite them joint filing). |
05/15/2013 |
The Blaze |
| The IRS is accused of stealing 60,000,000 medical records from 10,000,000 Americans held by a private company it was not investigating. |
05/15/2013 |
National Review Online |
| The IRS demanded of a pro-life group to know the content of their prayers. |
05/17/2013 |
Yahoo News |
| Lois Lerner was personally involved in the targeting of conservative groups -- nine months before she claimed to have learned about it. |
05/24/2013 |
Human Events |
| The commissioner of the IRS visited the White House several times per week during the height of the IRS scandal, with 118 visits in all (the previous IRS commissioner visited the White House once during his four year term). |
05/27/2013 |
Commentary Magazine |
| Evidence indicates the IRS also targeted pro-Israel organizations at the request of Palestinians. |
05/29/2013 |
Commentary Magazine |
| An internal report found that IRS agents routinely abuse their government credit cards. |
05/29/2013 |
Watchdog.org |
| Records show the IRS commissioner had more visits to the White House than any other cabinet member. |
05/29/2013 |
The Daily Caller |
| In addition to having tax-exempt applications intentionally delayed, many of these same conservatives were audited by the IRS. |
05/30/2013 |
McClatchy |
| Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, admitted she attended White House meetings with the IRS chief. |
06/01/2013 |
Rare |
| The IRS leaked a conservative group's donor list to an oppositional progressive organization. |
06/04/2013 |
Fox News |
| The IRS spent $4.1 million on a single conference, which included gifts for all in attendance as well as luxury accommodations. |
06/04/2013 |
The New York Times |
| Contrary to IRS officials trying to blame a rogue office in Cincinnati, a staffer in that office said the IRS in D.C. was very interested in the Tea Party cases. |
06/07/2013 |
The Hill |
| Even after being put on leave, Lois Lerner still had access to IRS computers, which she accessed while "on leave." |
06/11/2013 |
National Review Online |
| A FOIA request found that the IRS has 201 employees working full time on union business. |
06/13/2013 |
The Daily Caller |
| At the height of the IRS scandal, the agency doled out $70 million in employee bonuses. |
06/20/2013 |
The Hill |
| The IRS sent tens of millions of dollars in refunds to illegal aliens at one address. |
06/22/2013 |
PJ Media |
| Charities with "Israel" flagged for greater scrutiny |
06/24/2013 |
National Review Online |
| Despite the IRS insisting progressive groups seeking non-profit status were also flagged for increased scrutiny, that later proved to be untrue. |
06/24/2013 |
National Review Online |
| IRS chief council William Wilkins, one of the orchestrators of the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups, visited the White House the day before issuing guidelines on tea party groups. |
07/23/2013 |
The Wall Street Journal |
| The IRS secretly seized the entire bank account of a small business owner in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Again the agency explained they could take the money because she had made several deposits under $10,000. |
08/01/2013 |
The Daily Signal |
| Despite having claimed to learn about the scandal in the press, emails show Lois Lerner had initially said Tea Party applications were too sensitive for the supposedly "rogue" Cincinnati office. |
09/11/2013 |
The Wall Street Journal |
| Documents show the IRS, in reviewing applications from conservative groups, described anti-Obama rhetoric as "propaganda." |
09/17/2013 |
USA Today |
| After the IRS granted tax-emempt status to some conservative groups, those groups said they were "spied on" by the IRS. |
09/19/2013 |
The Washington Times |
| Ben Carson said after he attacked Obama during the National Prayer Breakfast, he was audited. |
10/01/2013 |
The Daily Caller |
| A study found tht the IRS's suppression of Tea Party groups swung the 2012 election. |
10/03/2013 |
The Washington Examiner |
| Emails show the IRS disussed confidential taxpayer information with White House officials during the 2012 campaign. |
10/09/2013 |
The Daily Caller |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Individual Mandate Excise tax took effect. |
01/01/2014 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Tax on Health Insurers took effect. |
01/01/2014 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Employer Mandate Tax took effect. |
01/01/2014 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| The IRS was not going rogue in targeting conservative groups; the White House and Senate Democrats explicitly told them to. |
02/26/2014 |
The Wall Street Journal |
| The IRS was required by law to print out Lois Lerner's emails. It didn't. |
06/17/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| IRS commissioner John Koskinen claimed Lois Lerner's emails were lost in a 2011 computer crash; a hard drive backing them up was also "recycled." |
06/25/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| The IRS claimed it lost the emails from six other employees in six other computer crashes. |
06/25/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| An inspector general's report found the IRS "prematurely" destroyed computer data storage devices. |
06/25/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| An IRS official tasked with spinning Congress on the IRS scandal lost all of his emails in a "computer crash." |
07/07/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| The IRS said Lois Lerner's hard drive had been "scratched"; when it was recommended a third party recovery firm might be able to recover the contents, the IRS then "shredded" the drive. |
07/22/2014 |
The Daily Caller |
| After the IRS learned Lois Lerner's computer "crashed," destroying her emails, and a backup storage device was prematurely "recycled," it went ahead and destroyed her Blackberry. |
08/25/2014 |
The New York Observer |
| A White House staffer divulged information about the Koch Brothers' tax returns in 2010, indicating the White House and the IRS were sharing taxpayers' private information. |
06/19/2015 |
Roll Call |
| Emails show the Obama Administration discussed its plan to target conservative groups before the IRS scandal began. |
07/06/2015 |
The Daily Caller |
| Emails show the IRS gave Obama's DoJ 21 disks with 1.25 million pages of taxpayer records. |
07/06/2015 |
The Daily Caller |
| An Inspector General report found the IRS prioritized ObamaCare enforcement over taxpayer customer servide. |
01/05/2016 |
The Washington Times |
| With Americans renouncing their citizenship in record numbers (up more than 500 percent since the Bush Administration), the Obama Administration hiked the tax on doing so 422 percent. |
02/20/2016 |
Forbes |
| The IRS identified 1.1 million cases of identity theft but did not notify the victims. |
08/31/2016 |
HotAir |
| The Obama Administration used information from Americans' tax returns to market ObamaCare (specifically to young adults). |
11/07/2016 |
The Daily Caller |
| An investigation found IRS workers spent more than $1.4 million for the travel of just 27 staffers, which included high-end car services and luxury apartment/hotel stays. |
12/14/2016 |
Fox News |
| Despite promise not to raise taxes on anyone except the rich, on this date the ObamaCare Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans takes effect. |
01/01/2018 |
Americans for Tax Reform |
| IRS Mistakenly Published Confidential Info of 120,000 Taxpayers |
09/03/2022 |
Epoch Times |
