IRS Official Gives Tax Records To White House--When Are We Going To See Some Of These Lawbreakers In Court?

IRS's Ingram May Have Given Confidential Taxpayer Info to White House

Friday, 11 Oct 2013 05:40 PM

By Lisa Furgison

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The IRS official who was in the hot seat for scrutinizing the tax-exempt status of conservative groups is making headlines once again. 

Sarah Hall Ingram, a top IRS employee, shared confidential taxpayer information with several people at the White House, The Daily Caller reports.

Emails given to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and obtained by The Daily Caller show Ingram shared confidential taxpayer information with Jeanne Lambrew, the deputy assistant to the president for health policies, as well White House health policy advisor Ellen Montz.

The conservative news site reported that Ingram went to the White House 155 times to meet Lambrew.

The exchange of information was meant to counsel the Obama administration on a lawsuit filed by several non-profits that opposed the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act, The Daily Caller said.

It its review of the emails, the oversight panel found large sections redacted and labeled with the number 6103. Section 6103 of the IRS code forbids any employee from sharing confidential information gathered through tax forms.

When asked at a committee hearing what those redacted areas said, Ingram replied, "I don’t recall the document so I can’t help you with what’s underneath that redaction."

Ingram now heads the IRS division responsible for implementing Obamacare. The agency is responsible for making sure Americans purchase the required healthcare or pay a tax penalty if they fail to do so. The agency is also responsible for issuing tax credits to consumers who qualify to help them cover the costs of purchasing insurance coverage.

Republican lawmakers are concerned that Ingram still has access to confidential information in her new position, something Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan made a point of in a recent hearing where Ingram testified, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

"You shared personal taxpayer information with the White House," Jordan told Ingram. "And now under the Affordable Care Act, Americans have to give personal information to the IRS — to the same organization that potentially shared all kinds of information with the White House political people. That’s what people are nervous about. That’s what scares a lot of people."

According to the Daily Caller, the IRS declined to comment on the Ingram visits, citing the government shutdown as the reason.

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The rats have taken over Washington. They go from preventing conservative groups getting their tax-exempt status and now move onto overseeing ObamaCrapCare for the IRS.  Sarah Hall Ingram should be the next person to be "outsourced" from the taxing authority.  She oversaw the unit and so she has culpability with the current crisis. Good bye, Sarah!

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IRS Official in Targeting Scandal Now Overseeing Obamacare Unit

Rep. Michele Bachmann listens as Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, speaks during a May 16 news conference about the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

Thursday, 16 May 2013 08:46 PM

By Todd Beamon

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The Internal Revenue Service official charged with overseeing tax-exempt organizations when conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny now runs the agency’s office responsible for implementing Obamacare.

Sarah Hall Ingram was commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012, ABC News reports.



But now, ABC says, Ingram is director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act office, a move that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said was "stunning, just stunning."

Ingram's successor, Joseph Grant, said he would retire on June 3. He served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit during some of those years.

Obamacare has 47 separate provisions that involve the IRS. It is the second-largest agency, after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, charged with implementing the act.

The IRS has to implement Obamacare's required purchase of health coverage, checking whether millions of Americans are in compliance.

The GOP-controlled House voted 225-to-125 to repeal Obamacare. It was the lower chamber's 37th vote to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law.

House Speaker John Boehner said he had "serious concerns" about whether the IRS was empowered as the law's chief enforcer.

"Fully repealing Obamacare will help us build a stronger, healthier economy, and will clear the way for patient-centered reforms that lower healthcare costs and protect jobs," the Ohio Republican told ABC.

"Obamacare empowers the agency that just violated the public's trust by secretly targeting conservative groups," Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said. "Even by Washington's standards, that's unacceptable."

And Sen. John Cornyn introduced the "Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013" in the debate leading up to the Obamacare vote. The legislation would prohibit the secretary of the Treasury -- or any designate, including the IRS -- from enforcing the law.

"Now more than ever, we need to prevent the IRS from having any role in Americans' healthcare," the Texas Republican told ABC. "I do not support Obamacare, and after the events of last week, I cannot support giving the IRS any more responsibility or taxpayer dollars to implement a broken law."

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