The United States Internal Revenue Service, the government agency responsible for implementing tax laws and collecting taxes. In Chapter Seven, Rothstein notes how the IRS has supported the tax-exempt status of segregationist organizations including “churches, hospitals, universities, neighborhood associations, and other groups,” even though it is legally required to deny this “tax favoritism [to] discriminatory organizations.”
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Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators
Rothstein notes that the IRS contributed to the segregation of American cities by selectively “grant[ing] tax-exempt status to churches, hospitals,...
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In Part I, Rothstein explains that the IRS has almost always failed to meet its “obligation to withhold tax favoritism from discriminatory organizations.”...
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