Not the best choice to lead a billion-dollar expansion of the worst-run agency in the U.S…
According to a report from Town Hall, the Biden Admin has tapped former Obama-era familiar face Nikole Flax to lead the aggressive expansion of the IRS —and not the good kind of familiar.
Flax worked with Lois Lerner —the central figure in an IRS scandal that saw the agency targeting conservative and tea party-affiliated groups
From Town Hall:
Back in the not-so-distant past, when Flax worked directly with then-Exempt Organizations Unit Director Lois Lerner as chief of staff to former Acting Commissioner Steven Miller, the IRS was caught engaging in the intentional slow-walking of tax registrations for conservative groups, even denying some explicitly because they would have undertaken activities hostile to the goals of the Obama-Biden administration.
Once the IRS was caught in its scheme of treating conservatives disparately from liberal organizations, Flax was one of several senior IRS officials who had their emails conveniently get ‘lost,’ along with Lerner’s, as Katie reported in 2014. “One of those officials is former chief of staff to former Acting Commissioner Steven Miller, Nikole Flax,” Katie also noted. “The ‘lost’ emails fall during the time period when ‘the Washington, DC office wrote and directed the Cincinnati field office to send abusive questionnaires, including inappropriate demands for donor information, to conservative groups,” according to the House Ways and Means Committee.”
So Biden is about to double the size of the IRS with an $80 billion-dollar cash injection and put a proven partisan player at the head of the table? Yep, that’s what it looks like.
According to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Flax will be leading “the creation of a new, centralized office for implementation of all IRS-related provisions.”
Flax says that the agency has “a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS in a way to help taxpayers and fundamentally improve our tax administration work that is vital to the success of our country.”
Doubtful. Sounds like another promise from a chronically clumsy outfit…
“Consider the agency’s chronic mishandling of tax credits,” Wall Street Journal reports. “By the IRS’s own admission, some $19 billion—or 28%—of earned-income tax credit payments in fiscal 2021 were ‘improper.’ The amount hasn’t improved despite years of IRS promises to do better.”
Putting an IRS lifer tainted by scandal in charge of an $80 billion-dollar expansion for the government’s least popular, worst-run agency…
Only the Biden Administration.
