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Pat Toomey: “Since the mission of the IRS is to determine what people owe in taxes, and since these contributions have nothing to do…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2018
Since the mission of the IRS is to determine what people owe in taxes, and since these contributions have nothing to do with what people owe in taxes, it's really not the business of the IRS to be trying to police who contributed what to these organizations in a series of contributions that have no tax consequences. Isn't that fair to say?
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey argued that the IRS should not regulate contributions with no tax implications.

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