Lois Lerner's Top Lieutenant in Tea-Party Targeting Is Finally Put on Leave

A former deputy to Lois Lerner -- who oversaw the IRS division accused of targeting conservative groups during the Obama years -- was placed on leave after lawmakers raised alarms that a new sub-department she was leading was becoming politicized.
In 2013, Lerner was hauled before Congress, where it was revealed her agency had wrongfully scrutinized tax-exempt applications related to the phrases "Tea Party," "9/12" and "Constitution." The Treasury's inspector general later confirmed "inappropriate criteria" was used to target conservative groups and criticized ineffective oversight of systemic bias.
IRS Commissioner of Large Business and International Division Holly Paz -- Lerner's then-deputy -- was placed on leave last week as lawmakers drew attention to a subordinate work-unit aimed at auditing pass-through businesses that Biden-era Commissioner Danny Werfel had created and assigned her to lead.

According to Google's AI, a pass through business is a fairly standard kind of business framework.

A pass-through business (also known as a flow-through entity or fiscally transparent entity) is a business structure in which the profits and losses of the business are passed through directly to the owners or shareholders, according to Wikipedia. Unlike C-corporations, the business entity itself is not subject to corporate income tax. Instead, the owners report their share of the business's income or loss on their personal tax returns and pay taxes at their individual income tax rates.
Key aspects of pass-through businesses
No double taxation: The main advantage is avoiding the double taxation faced by C corporations, where profits are taxed at the corporate level and again when distributed to shareholders.
Taxation at individual rates: Owners are taxed on the business income at their individual income tax rates.
Common types: Includes sole proprietorships, partnerships, S corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs) that choose to be taxed as a sole proprietorship or partnership.
I like the Miami Heat. What about you?

I don't follow the NBA, AI NPC, but thanks for asking.

Werfel called the new work-unit a big step in "ensur[ing] the IRS holds the nation's wealthiest filers accountable," and Paz called it an "important change" in the IRS structure.
However, by 2025, lawmakers, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned that the pass-thru-business compliance unit had transformed to be "motivated by ideology rather than principles of sound tax administration."
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Around that time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa., warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that Paz's team "has made tongue-in-cheek political comments," including their stated wish to "make basis great again" -- a phrase regarding taxation loss/gain that hearkens to President Donald Trump's MAGA slogan.
In that regard, Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., wrote to IRS Commissioner Billy Long in July that a Biden-era "basis-shifting transaction rule" had "extended the scope" of enforcement.
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Chuck Flint, a former top aide to Blackburn and president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Paz's past targeting of conservative groups makes her "unfit for government service."
Flint said her statements to Congress and role as LB&I chief "places a cloud over the IRS."

Holly Paz is accused of changing the rules for businesses so that more of them will be audited -- and so Biden's legions of new IRS employees would have a larger pool of victims to harass:

Blackburn warned in her letter to Bessent that an IRS news release referencing targeting "complex arrangements" lacked clear definitions and created the impression that legitimate business structures could be unfairly targeted based on legal structure versus actual tax compliance risk.
"Even more concerning, the announcement explicitly states that the bureaucratic changes were designed primarily to 'achieve its goal of increased audit rates in this complex area'.
"This focus on increasing audits rather than improving compliance suggests an agenda-driven approach to enforcement," Blackburn said.
In her letter, Ernst warned Bessent that Paz's team members "have also undermined their appearance of impartiality by comparing legally acceptable transactions to obscene material, saying, 'It's one of those 'You know it when you see it' -- a joking reference to [Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's] attempt to define pornography.

Corrupt bureaucrats (and corrupt media shills) always want to operate in a rules-free environment where they can accuse and harass as it pleases them, without any rules restraining their whim.

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— NautPoso memes 🇮🇪☘️ (@NautPoso) August 5, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:35 PM

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1 In before

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:35 PM (8wKVG)

2 Ironic, the in before guy is first

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8wKVG)

3 Also in before the Corgies

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8wKVG)

4 Kind of quiet here, maybe I'll hit the drink cart

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:38 PM (8wKVG)

5 Say, this ice cube has a fly inside it.

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:39 PM (8wKVG)

6 Suppose I'd better yell at them downstairs.

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:40 PM (8wKVG)

7 Correction, yell upstairs since this is an under nood

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:41 PM (8wKVG)

8 Don’t get the meme. Must be some cultural component I’ve missed in my life.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 05, 2025 06:42 PM (2NHgQ)

9 Ok. did my yelling. Let's see what's in the fridge.

* opens fridge door *

Hmm, looks like Hobo stew

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:44 PM (8wKVG)

10 Thanks for undernooding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

11 Abolish the IRS.

Flat 5% tax.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:46 PM (xXxgc)

12 Corrupt bureaucrats (and corrupt media shills) always want to operate in a rules-free environment where they can accuse and harass as it pleases them, without any rules restraining their whim.

People really live being the scold/NKVD officer walking down the hallway. They love that feeling of power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

13 Abolish the IRS.

Flat 5% tax.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:46 PM (xXxgc)

Sales tax. Perfectly 'progressive'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

14 I don't think people groked the undernood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:48 PM (zZu0s)

15 People really live being the scold/NKVD officer walking down the hallway. They love that feeling of power.

Kapos ever last worthless one of them

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:48 PM (xXxgc)

16 Secret Service In Awe As Trump Walks On Moderately Sloped Roof

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 06:49 PM (L/fGl)

17 Wouldn't a progressive sales tax force Jasmine Crocket to dress more cheaply?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:50 PM (xXxgc)

18 I'm here. I followed the clues.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Easily nonplussed at August 05, 2025 06:50 PM (0aYVJ)

19 Fuck you, Tony!

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 06:51 PM (v0R5T)

20 Maybe someone should have said "under boob"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:51 PM (xXxgc)

21 I don't follow the NBA, AI NPC, but thanks for asking.

The WNBA has been getting some turgid recognition from commenters recently here, Ace.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 06:51 PM (0sNs1)

22 They said 'turgid.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:52 PM (xXxgc)

23 Secret Service In Awe As Trump Walks On Moderately Sloped Roof

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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 06:49 PM (L/fGl)

SS: what new devilry?

Alia: He IS the Kwisatch Hadarach!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

24 Alia of the Knife meets Jerry Nadler...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (xXxgc)

25 "What are you doing up there, Mr. President?"

"Checking the wetbacks roofing work."

I denounce myself.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (v0R5T)

26 Alia of the Knife meets Jerry Nadler...
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (xXxgc)

A family story...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

27 Did a 2nd nood call, now where the snacks?

Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:54 PM (8wKVG)

28 WNBA makes me flaccid.

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2025 06:54 PM (v0R5T)

29 Did Aetius order that New Jersey figure?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:55 PM (xXxgc)

30 Alia of the Knife meets Jerry Nadler...
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (xXxgc)

Here we go again.

Posted by: Donnie Iris at August 05, 2025 06:55 PM (dR6yv)

31 Did Aetius order that New Jersey figure?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:55 PM (xXxgc)

Military History is always interesting.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

32 Alia of the Knife meets Jerry Nadler...
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (xXxgc)

A family story...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

It'd be like Luke Skywalker and the Tauntaun.

She could sleep inside him overnight!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 06:56 PM (iJfKG)

33 Wouldn't a progressive sales tax force Jasmine Crocket to dress more cheaply?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:50 PM (xXxgc)

Her getting her district chopped away will.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)

34 The 16" guns on Iowa-class battleships fired shells weighing up to 2,700 lbs up to 20 miles.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

35 Since I am very familiar with 'underboob', the undernood announcement was very clear to me.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 06:59 PM (cYBz/)

36 Did a 2nd nood call, now where the snacks?
Posted by: The in before guy comment at August 05, 2025 06:54 PM

Slides a bag of kimchi-flavored pork rinds through the USB port to The in before guy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

37 Since I am very familiar with 'underboob'
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 06:59 PM

That's where moss grows, right?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 05, 2025 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

38 Shut up Wesley

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 07:01 PM (xXxgc)

39 Underwood, like sideboard, can be wonderful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

40 Trump says FBI 'may have to' force Democratic lawmakers back to Texas

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide!
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 07:02 PM (L/fGl)

41 Lol. Phone.

Underboob

Sideboob

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

42 The 16" guns on Iowa-class battleships fired shells weighing up to 2,700 lbs up to 20 miles.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I don't know which Iowa-class BB is was, but my Pop told me his position was fired over by one of them to crush a Red Chinese attack in Korea. He said the projectiles looked like cars flying through the night sky.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 07:03 PM (cYBz/)

43 Trump says FBI 'may have to' force Democratic lawmakers back to Texas
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Please tell me this is real and possible... lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 05, 2025 07:03 PM (ANuwa)

44 Trump says FBI 'may have to' force Democratic lawmakers back to Texas

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide!
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 07:02 PM (L/fGl)

ICE might be a better choice. They are illegal immigrants into Illinois.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:03 PM (8avO+)

45 At least the IRS doesn't undernood.

Shifty.

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2025 07:06 PM (fV+MH)

46 I suspect there are a thousand more just like this one making people suffer because they can.

A little bit of power is dangerous.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 05, 2025 07:07 PM (vZUXb)

47 The IJN Yamato, with its 18.1" guns, fired 3,220 lb shells over 26 miles.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

48 Tennessee has executed a man for the 1988 murder of his girlfriend and her two young daughters despite arguments that he suffered from intellectual disabilities and concerns that his heart device would shock him back to life during the lethal injection.

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Sayonara, m*th*rf*ck*r.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 07:07 PM (L/fGl)

49 The electro-mechanical fire control computer on the Iowa class was so good that when the class was brought out for their last dance in the 1980s, it was decided not to replace them with electronic control.

The aged powder was a problem, however, and after disappointing results in Lebanon several steps were taken, including mixing up the different lots and re-calibrating the guns with the resulting mix.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 05, 2025 07:08 PM (U/Byj)

50 Per TGP: Recently discovered documents reveal Jeffrey Epstein was a secret FBI informant.

Get the fuck outta here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2025 07:09 PM (dR6yv)

51 This is going to be one of those threads that just fizzles, isn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

52 Tennessee has executed a man for the 1988 murder of his girlfriend and her two young daughters despite arguments that he suffered from intellectual disabilities and concerns that his heart device would shock him back to life during the lethal injection.

Shoot 'im!

Posted by: Troy Landry at August 05, 2025 07:13 PM (dR6yv)

53 Sad really.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

54 It took them almost 40 years?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:13 PM (zZu0s)

55 don't know which Iowa-class BB is was, but my Pop told me his position was fired over by one of them to crush a Red Chinese attack in Korea. He said the projectiles looked like cars flying through the night sky.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 07:03 PM (cYBz/)

All 4 Iowa Class were in Korea

The Iowa-Class battleship USS Missouri was the first battlewagon in action and fired volleys of 16-inch projectiles to cover the retreat of US soldiers from the Chinese border along the coastline.

Soon after, the USS Iowa, USS New Jersey, and USS Wisconsin joined the war.

As one report noted, the “battleships used both their sixteen-inch main armament and their five-inch secondary armament to pound Chinese and North Korean positions along the coast. These positions included cave systems, concealed artillery, and command posts. As with the end of the Second World War, the battleships also hit strategic and operational targets, including railways, industrial parks, and transport centers.”

In one action the Wisconsin was hit by a 152 mm gun without damage, and return fire obliterated the NK weapon.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

56 Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the next “Alligator Alcatraz” will be in the state of Indiana at the Miami Correctional Facility & will be branded as the “Speedway Slammer”. DHS says it will expand ICE detention capacity by 1,000 beds, will house some of the “worst of the worst” criminal aliens, and it will be in partnership w/ Indiana Governor Mike Braun.

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They're going to have to import a shitload of alligators!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 07:15 PM (L/fGl)

57 In one action the Wisconsin was hit by a 152 mm gun without damage, and return fire obliterated the NK weapon.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

That kicked the tires.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

58
>>in the state of Indiana at the Miami Correctional Facility

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Is there such a thing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 07:17 PM (n7rxJ)

59 I mean really how long does it take to shuck l out embedded Commie ticks!
Get in there boys and girls. The Dems only have a ghetto BOO GAME at this point.
BOO THIS BITCHES!
Ya'll goin to PRIZON (spelt eboniks steyle jutzt four U)

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 07:17 PM (VPPG8)

60 In one action the Wisconsin was hit by a 152 mm gun without damage, and return fire obliterated the NK weapon.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

That kicked the tires.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

All nine main guns.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:19 PM (8avO+)

61 >>in the state of Indiana at the Miami Correctional Facility

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Is there such a thing?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 07:17 PM (n7rxJ)

its near Kokomo. There are 2 Miami rivers in the Cincy/Indiana areas. The Miami tribe was from there ranging from the Ohio to the north of the state.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 05, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

62
The Miami Correctional Facility is a state prison located near Bunker Hill, Indiana, on the site of the Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base at West 850 South and US-31, about 11 miles north of Kokomo, Indiana.

No where near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2025 07:21 PM (63Dwl)

63 59 I mean really how long does it take to shuck l out embedded Commie ticks!

you'd be surprised

Posted by: hawaiian judge at August 05, 2025 07:22 PM (sGtp+)

64 Florida has an Alligator Alcatraz fever
The only cure is another Alligator Alcatraz.
And all the way from Seattle Washington:

Florida prepares to build a 2nd immigration detention center to join ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

https://tinyurl.com/44hn64p6

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 07:23 PM (VPPG8)

65 Anyone working for the feds is an asshole.

Anyone working for the IRS is the pink ring of the asshole.

Posted by: Zombie Al Capone at August 05, 2025 07:25 PM (R/m4+)

66 Description of TN killer from MSM per his lawyer:

After 25 years of representing him, she described Black as “a gentle, kind, fragile, intellectually disabled man” and described the execution as eroding the rule of law

Sooooo gentle and fragile he had killed his girlfriend and her daughters. Riiiiiiiiight

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2025 07:26 PM (2GCMq)

67

Not Fragile

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2025 07:26 PM (63Dwl)

68 47 The IJN Yamato, with its 18.1" guns, fired 3,220 lb shells over 26 miles.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

Yes it did.
-Battleship New Jersey

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 07:29 PM (VPPG8)

69 So spark shit his girlfriend in a jealous rage. Ok for the girlfriend (29 at the time) but the 6 and 9 year old.

Fuck off you piece of shit, you hung around way too long.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:29 PM (zZu0s)

70 Florida prepares to build a 2nd immigration detention center to join ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

https://tinyurl.com/44hn64p6
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 07:23 PM (VPPG

The key to Alligator Alcatraz was that it had a pre built unused Runway...

I got one about 2 miles from here... old SAC base that housed B-52s and KC-135s.... training base with a mostly unused runway, and lots of open ground around it for camps... here in Central Calif... where we probably have more Illegals per capita then any other State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 05, 2025 07:31 PM (mP0Kj)

71 47 The IJN Yamato, with its 18.1" guns, fired 3,220 lb shells over 26 miles.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

Compensating for something, fellas?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 05, 2025 07:32 PM (8hxDK)

72 When a perp is caught with the gun in his hand this endless appeals for 20 years is bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 05, 2025 07:32 PM (HFcKg)

73 Nood in this thread? Cafe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 07:33 PM (zZu0s)

74 26 Alia of the Knife meets Jerry Nadler...
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (xXxgc)

A family story...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

There I was just poking a new hole in Jerry's belt and whoosh the knife slipped then gurgle gurgle up came bubblin crude.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 07:35 PM (VPPG8)

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