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Via CNS News
A former IRS director said Tuesday that IRS mismanagement was due to budget restrictions and a backlog of applications, claiming it had nothing to do with tax-exempt organizations.
“This issue with the IRS performance has been building for a long time, and critical decisions were made actually back in 2003. Training was cut back dramatically in 2003 because of budget restrictions,” said Marcus Owens, former director for the Exempt Organizations Division of the IRS for 10 years, during a panel discussion hosted by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) at the Capitol.
“The backlog of applications was growing enormous – had nothing to do with [501c(4)s], it had a lot to do with apparently the procedures that had been put in place after 2003 that simply weren’t working,” Owens said.
At the event panel titled, “Critical Issues in Dark Money,” the moderator, Eliza Newlin Carney, a senior writer for Roll Call, questioned the panelists about the IRS scandal.