{"id":13195,"date":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/report-says-irs-has-gotten-better-at-processing-political-tax-exemption-applications\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:58:50","slug":"report-says-irs-has-gotten-better-at-processing-political-tax-exemption-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/report-says-irs-has-gotten-better-at-processing-political-tax-exemption-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Says IRS Has Gotten Better at Processing Political Tax-Exemption Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true.<\/p>\n<p>www.cpapracticeadvisor.com \u2014 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken significant actions to improve the processing of tax-exempt applications involving political intervention, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).<\/p>\n<p>The report is a follow-up to a May 2013 TIGTA report, which found that ineffective IRS management resulted in: 1) the use of inappropriate criteria to identify for review organizations applying for tax-exempt status based on names and policy positions instead of indications of political campaign intervention; 2) substantially delayed processing of certain applications, and, 3) the issuance of unnecessary information requests.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpapracticeadvisor.com\/news\/12070259\/report-says-irs-has-gotten-better-at-processing-political-tax-exemption-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report Says IRS Has Gotten Better at Processing Political Tax-Exemption Applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what you&#039;ve read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I&#039;ve been doing this for 32 years. Here&#039;s what&#039;s actually true. www.cpapracticeadvisor.com \u2014 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken significant actions to improve the processing of tax-exempt applications involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22479,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions\/22479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}