LAKE JACKSON, TX – Former Presidential candidate Ron Paul and his non-profit political lobbying organization are in big trouble with the IRS for not paying a fine, the politician said in an email today.
“Campaign for Liberty’s legal fight with the IRS is growing nastier by the day,” a Ron Paul staffer said in the email.
“In fact, the IRS is threatening to SEIZE Campaign for Liberty’s property if we don’t pay their outrageous fine,” which, according to a document in attached in the email, amounts to $12,900 plus late fees.
“I can’t begin to explain just how critical this is,” Ron Paul said, before asking anyone who receives the email to “take action” and sign a “Statement of Support” to help fight the IRS’s “threats and intimidation tactics”.
Paul’s lobbying group refused to hand over the names of donors in its 2012 tax statements, resulting in the fine.
“There is no legitimate reason for the IRS to know who donates to Campaign for Liberty,” a Paul staffer told a Washington newspaper in April. “We believe the First Amendment is on our side.”
After the IRS levied its fine, Paul wrote in an email to supporters that the fine would be “the first in a long line of unconstitutional and likely illegal ‘excuses’ this rogue government agency will use to try to shut us up and shut us down by fining us to death.”
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