Charities and Politicking: The Rules Get Murkier

The Internal Revenue Service last month released its long-awaited report on the involvement of tax-exempt groups in the 2004 elections. The investigation was designed to determine whether charities and religious groups had broken laws that prohibit charities from supporting or opposing candidates for political office, and was the beginning of what the IRS promised would be a more-aggressive effort to punish wrongdoing.

Although its investigation turned up numerous violations of

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