IRS Probe Finds More Screening Lists
Washington (CNN) — The Internal Revenue Service used multiple lists of inappropriate criteria in reviewing applications for tax-exempt status, the temporary head of the tax agency said Monday in his first report on the targeting of conservative groups.
IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Daniel Werfel provided no details of what other inappropriate criteria were on the lists, but said “there was a wide-ranging set of categories and cases that spanned a broad spectrum.”
The practice of using so-called “Be On the Look Out” criteria had been halted, Werfel told reporters.
However, an IRS document obtained by CNN showed that some inappropriate lists continued to be used until as recently as this month.