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   Texas Representative Steve Stockman introduced legislation today   
   that would allow taxpayers to give the Internal Revenue Service   
   the 'same 'lame' excuses for not for handing over documents as   
   the IRS is giving Congress.   
      
   If the IRS is allowed to claim that 'convenient, unexplained,   
   miscellaneous computer malfunction is sufficient justification   
   not to produce specific, critical documentation,' Stockman's   
   bill says, taxpayers should be able to, as well.   
      
   'Taxpayers shouldn’t be expected to follow laws the Obama   
   administration refuses to follow themselves,' Stockman, a   
   Republican, said in a statement announcing The Dog Ate My Tax   
   Receipts Act.   
      
   'Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously   
   made-up excuses the Obama administration uses.'   
      
   The Congressman's tongue-in-cheek legislation is meant to tweak   
   the IRS for claiming that it's unable to provide 28 months worth   
   of emails from former Exempt Organizations Division Director   
   Lois Lerner because her computer crashed in 2011.   
      
   Lerner left the IRS last year after she was implicated in a tea   
   party targeting scheme in which the IRS inappropriately   
   scrutinized right-leaning organizations applying for non-profit   
   statuses while approving progressive groups' applications with   
   little additional questioning.   
      
   At a May 2013 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform   
   hearing Lerner testified that she had not broken any laws or   
   regulations before invoking her Fifth Amendment right not to   
   implicate herself in a crime.   
      
   Since then, Congress has been trying to get its hands on her   
   emails, dating back to January 2009, so it could see if the IRS   
   acted alone in the targeting or it was in cahoots with the White   
   House.   
      
   IRS commissioner John Koskinen informed the House Ways and Means   
   committee on Friday that getting the bulk of Lerner's emails for   
   the first half of the time period in question would be more   
   difficult than he'd originally led the committee to believe   
   because of the computer crash.   
      
   During the crash her hard drive was damaged, Koskinen told   
   Congress, and attempts to retrieve her data afterward were   
   unsuccessful.   
      
   Koskinen told the Ways and Means commitee today that Lerner   
   herself went to 'extraordinary' lengths to have technology   
   experts at the IRS rebuild her hard drive so that she could   
   access her old emails but they were 'unrecoverable.'   
      
   In keeping with its usual policy, the IRS recycled Lerner's hard   
   drive in 2011, Koskinen said, so he cannot comply with an   
   Oversight subpoena to turn the computer part over.   
      
   The computers of six other officials affiliated with the scandal   
   also crashed, he told Congress on Monday, and the IRS is still   
   working to recover their data.   
      
   'At this time it is too early to know whether any of the emails   
   have been lost on any of those hard drives,' he testified today.   
      
   Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen told the   
   House Ways and Means Committee on today that the IRS can't   
   produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party   
   investigation because of computer crashes, including the emails   
   from Lois Lerner   
      
   In response to Koskinen's shocking testimony this morning,   
   Stockman, a Republican who is not running for re-election to his   
   House seat and only has a few months left in his congressional   
   term, filed The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act this afternoon.   
      
   In his bill Stockman says that 'fairness and Due Process demand   
   that the American taxpayer be granted no less latitude than we   
   afford the bureaucrats employed presently at the IRS.'   
      
   Unless the IRS produces the documents that were subpenaed,   
   'taxpayers shall be given the benefit of the doubt when not   
   producing critical documentation' if their excuse is one of the   
   following:   
      
   1.         The dog ate my tax receipts   
   2.         Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer   
   malfunction   
   3.         Traded documents for five terrorists   
   4.         Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon   
   5.         Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room   
   6.         Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s   
   car   
   7.         Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords   
   8.         Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar   
   9.         Was short on toilet paper while camping   
   10.       At this point, what difference does it make?   
      
   'In any case, IRS can see the NSA for a good, high quality   
   copy,' Stockman snarkily stated at the end of the bill.   
      
      
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664130/Congressman-   
   introduces-bill-taxpayers-use-lame-excuses-IRS-filing-   
   returns.html   
      
       
      
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