IRS Chief Affirms That Agency Ended ‘Be on the Lookout’ Lists

Government Executive: In the latest wrinkle in the controversy over the Internal Revenue Service’s alleged targeting of conservative groups, the tax agency’s chief has written to Congress to assure lawmakers that its Exempt Organization’s division long ago discontinued use of so-called “Be on the Lookout” lists to sift through applications from nonprofits.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court handling an ongoing case from the conservative group True the Vote zeroed in on the IRS’s use of the term “suspended” to describe the practice of flagging groups based on their names, overruling a lower court and restoring the suit against the agency.

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