"The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants," the report stated. "Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants."
The eight identified officials included Douglas Shulman, former commissioner; Jonathan Davis, chief of staff to Shulman; Steven Miller, former acting commissioner; Nikole Flax, chief of staff to Miller; William Wilkins, chief counsel; Joseph Grant, former acting commissioner of tax exempt and government entities; Lois Lerner, former director of exempt organizations; and Holly Paz, director of rulings and agreements.
The findings showed that the IRS officials were biased against conservatives and abused their power while enforcing the tax code.
"Conservative organizations were not just singled out because of their political beliefs — they were targeted by IRS officials and employees who expressed a general loathing toward them even while begrudgingly admitting that those organizations were in compliance with the only thing the IRS should care about: the federal tax code," the report concluded.
IRS continues to produce responsive documents, and other federal agencies have yet to fully comply with the Committee's requests for information.
IRS is the revenue service of the US federal government responsible for collecting taxes and the administration of the Internal Revenue Code.
