Report criticizes IRS tax abuse
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Internal
Revenue Service has carried out illegal
missions for the FBI, CIA and White
House in a serious breach of taxpayers'
rights, a Senate Intelligence Committee
staff report said yesterday.
.IRS • Commissioner Donald C.
Alexander, meanwhile, told a House Noting the agency receives "vast
hearing yesterday he would like to make - amounts of information about the
"the biggest bonfire" in Washington to financial and personal affairs of
destroy 11,500 , IRS intelligence files American citizens," the report said
rather than show the files to the other government departments sought
Americans involved. information "for purposes other than tax
The Senate report said most of the
"use and abuse" orders to the IRS came
from outside, but that the agency often
was criminally negligent in not policing
itself.
Military
WASHINGTON (UPI) •
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday ap
proved a two-year, $6.75
billion military aid bill which
kept some provisions that
prompted President Ford to
,veto earlier legislation, such
as tighter controls on foreign
military sales.
; The committee retained
'provisions giving Congress
'power to reject military sales
'of more than $25 million and
phasing out all'U.S. military
advisory, groups except those
specifically requested by the
president.
It dropped two other
Measures Ford gave as
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Some probes were ordered on the basis
of political activity and not because of
tax violations, the study found. Abuses
took place during Democratic and
Republican administrations, but
reached a peak under President Richard
M. Nixon, it said.
law enforcement."
It led to "serious and illegal abuse of
IRS investigative powers and to a
compromise of the privacy and integrity
of the tax return."
aid bill altered
reasons for his veto last week
of the $3.9 billion military aid
legislation that would have
covered the current 'fiscal
year. These would have set a
$9 billion yearly ceiling on
military sales and called for a
six-month relaxation 'of the
trade embargo on Vietnam.
The House International
Relatipns Committee,
meanwhile, met to work out
its own version of legislation
to replace the vetoed bill.
Members sketched out a
compromise which would
keep the $9 billion ceiling for
all sales but modify the
congressional veto power , on
individual sales and
provisions to terminate aid
programs for violations of
human rights or
discrimination against U.S.
government employes on the
basis of religion or sex:
House Committee members
also said they would be
willing to drop the relaxation
of the Vietnam trade em
bargo, a provision that would
be troublesome to Ford in his
presidential campaigri
Both committees decided to
combine bills for the current
and next fiscal year because
they are faced with a
Saturday deadline for
reporting all bills 'carrying
spending authority.
The report said an IRS Special Service
Staff collected information on taxpayers
"targeted" by the White House, FBI,
CIA and other agencies by methods that
included wiretaps, bugging and
breakins.
"In the late 1960 s and early 19705,
many .. . were selected for in*-
vestigation . . . initially because of their
political activism rather than because
specific facts indicated tax violations."
Despite recent reforms, the report
said the finding "strongly suggests that
more effective oversight and new
controls over IRS intelliegence
gathering are necessary if the IRS is to
be used for any non-tax purpose." .
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