First on the fox: The highest representative of the House of Representatives calls for an internal income (IRS) service to recall the status of a non -profit organization of the exempt tax related to the former candidate for Gubernator Georgia Stacey Abrams.
The group founded Abrams, a New Georgia Project, was recently fined $ 300,000 for violating the State Election Act in the Georgia Commission.
The Chairman of the Committee for Home Ways and Funds Jason Smith, R-M., Called him “the biggest penalties in the history of the Ethics Commission, and perhaps the greatest ethical fine ever issued in the United States” in his letter to IRS Commissioners Melanie Krause.
The Commission unanimously charged Georgia’s new project that she had not discovered more than four million dollars contributions to the campaign and more than three million dollars of expenditure, while supporting Abrams’ failed campaign of the 2018 Gubernator Campaign campaign.
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Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic Gubernator Candidate for Georgia, speaks during a set of elections in Atlanta on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“As you know, according to the Internal Revenue Act, section 501 (c) (3), organizations are strictly forbidden to participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf or opposition to any public function candidate,” Smith wrote.
“The IRS can revoke the status of an organization -free status or evaluate excise duties for certain types of violation if it determines that the organization is not aligned because it relates to the intervention of a political campaign.”
In 2013, Abrams founded Georgia a new project to help strengthen the effort to register voters in Peach. However, she has not been dealing with the group since 2017, and Smith pointed out that the groups were registered as 501 (c) (3) non -profit organizations forbidden participation or advocacy for certain political candidates.
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House Ways & Means Chairman Jason Smith leaves a Republican House Conference meeting in the US Capitol on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. (Tom Williams)
The new connected group of Project Georgia, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, is able to support candidates, but donations are not tax exempt.
” The Intervention of the New Project Georgia In the 2018 election cycle, in support of Stacey Abrams and the campaign of other candidates, it represents a clear violation of their status exempt from taxes, “Smith wrote.
“GSEC discovery shows that the new Georgia project has participated in activities and events outside the purpose of the organization tax and should therefore lose its status exempt from taxes and be leaning as a” action organization “.
Smith admitted that such non -profit organizations were “involved in certain non -partisan activities of voter education that did not represent a ban on political campaign activities, including public forums and publication of voter education guides,” but it claimed “it is clear that the new Gruzi project has moved a line to the banned activity in Interven and several candidates.
“I demand that you use your powers to make this recommendation a priority and I ensure that the IRS is moving quickly to examine and revoke the status of the tax of the new Gruzi project,” he wrote.
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Fox News Digital addressed the new project Georgia and IRS for comment, but did not answer the time of the press.
The new project lawyer Georgia Aria said NBC News At the time of the Commission’s verdict, “although we are still disappointed that the judgment of the Federal Court on the constitutionality of the Law on Transparency and Campaign for the campaign was completely completely abolished on the procedural basics, we accept this outcome and it is eager to turn the page on the activities that took place more than five years ago.”
