Philly Inq - N.J. Tea Party Group Feels Victimized By IRS

By Andrew Seidman, Philly.com

Unlike some nonprofit groups that have obtained tax-exempt status to help influence elections with millions of dollars in TV ads, the Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey say they have no desire to flood the airwaves.

They just want to pay less for U.S. mail.

But the group's application for 501(c)(4) status, submitted in early 2011, has yet to be approved or denied by the IRS. . . .

On the advice of attorneys at the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice, the Patriots did not provide the IRS with all of the information it sought. They say the IRS has not contacted them since.

"The IRS took a caricature of the tea party and essentially viewed it as a political party, as opposed to what these groups actually were: individual entities with individual purposes," said David French, senior counsel at the ACLJ. . . .

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