IG for Tax Administration Report on Uncovering Root of Terrorist Financing

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report 2007-10-082: Screening Tax-Exempt Organizations’ Filing Information Provides Minimal Assurance That Potential Terrorist-related Activites Are Identified, May 21, 2007.

  • “The IRS does not systemically match filing data of tax-exempt organizations against a comprehensive list of potential terrorists to identify instances in which charitable and other nonprofit organizations may be linked to terrorist activities. Instead, IRS personnel manually review all tax-exempt documents and compare information from them to a United States Department of the Treasury terrorist watch list. This list, however, is incomplete compared to the more comprehensive terrorist watch list available for use by all Federal Government agencies. As a result of using a manual process and a limited terrorist watch list, the IRS provides only minimal assurance that tax-exempt organizations potentially involved in terrorist activities are being identified.”
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