Two Washington-based campaign watchdog groups are asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of prominent organizations with strong ties to both Republican and Democratic campaigns.
Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center sent a request on Wednesday to the IRS asking the agency to look into whether politically engaged organizations Crossroads GPS, Priorities USA, American Action Network, and Americans Elect deserve their tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status.
“These four groups should be operating as 527 political organizations and disclosing their donors, instead of disingenuously posing as ‘social welfare’ organizations to hide big-money campaign givers,” said Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer in a statement. “It is incumbent on the IRS to put a stop to this charade.”
IRS Asked to Investigate Four Politically Connected Groups
