June 15, 2006

Senator Chides IRS on Enforcing Charity Laws

By Elizabeth Schwinn

TAX WATCH

The Internal Revenue Service isn't doing enough to go after the charitable world's "bad actors," including nonprofit hospitals that don't provide enough benefits to society to justify their tax-exempt status and charities that overpay their board members and trustees, according to a powerful senator.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, ordered the IRS to provide him with a detailed

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