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TROUBLE FOR TAX ACTIVIST NORQUIST?

June 26, 2006

Stuart Levine at Tax and Business Law Commentary says that Grover Norquist, the guiding hand behind Americans for Tax Reform and the dodgy disciple of estate tax repeal, may be in serious trouble. He notes a Washington Post article saying that Jack Abramoff funnelled cash for lobbying efforts through ATR:

According to an investigative report on Abramoff's lobbying released last week by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Americans for Tax Reform served as a "conduit" for funds that flowed from Abramoff's clients to surreptitiously finance grass-roots lobbying campaigns. As the money passed through, Norquist's organization kept a small cut, e-mails show.

That doesn't look good. Mr. Levine thinks that allowing ATR to be used as a conduit might make Mr. Norquist part of a criminal conspiracy. That may be wishful thinking by Mr. Levine, but even without criminal charges, ATR and Mr. Norquist may be vulnerable to some serious problems with the IRS.

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