A new website tracks donations to conservative groups, according to The Post. The Conservative Transparency Web site (http://www.conservativetransparency.org), which will be run by the Media Matters Action Network, uses Internal Revenue Service filings to track the major financial backers and beneficiaries of conservative activist groups.
Category: IRS
Gov. Sanford’s Trips and Tax Implications
The Washington Post is reporting that tax experts are questioning how Gov. Sanford treated flights he took. Tax experts who reviewed an Associated Press analysis of more than 100 flights since 2003 said numerous trips could have triggered Internal Revenue Service rules that require adding the value of flights to the governor’s wages, making them subject […]
The Race for 2012
Politico reports that Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be launching a political action committee soon. Pawlenty will kick off the fundraising organization with a high-dollar event in Minneapolis on November 4th, according to his advisers. The $5,000 per-person dinner will be a home-state start to Pawlenty’s potential 2012 run, mostly underwritten by the governor’s fellow Minnesotans. […]