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Where did ACORN learn so much about taxes?

September 16, 2009

The ACORN organization has made news recently for its willingness to tackle tax problems of pimps attempting to smuggle minors into the country to ply the sex trade. Where did they pick up such skills? Why, they are "national partners" of the IRS! From the ACORN web site:

“ACORN has had the most significant growth of all our national partners. This is truly a remarkable accomplishment and a tribute to ACORN’s ability to nationally design and implement a complex program throughout a group of affiliate organizations.”
– Ron Smith
IRS Chief of Volunteer and Community Partnerships

When you are willing to go the extra mile for your clients, you grow like that. Not many practitioners are bold enough to discuss the pros and cons of claiming dependent exemptions for child sex slaves.

But now this important resource for our nation's strategic sex industry is coming under attack from opportunistic politicians:

The House GOP leadership wants President Obama and the IRS to sever the services' ties with Acorn after an expose showed Acorn staffers with the group's low-income tax prep service offering advice to clients posing as a youth prostitution ring.

How cruel it would be to deprive our hard-working pimps of the tax advice they need to stay within the law.

Prior Tax Update Coverage:

ACORN: for non-wimpy tax advice!

Aside from the child-sex trafficking, was the tax advice good?