To: IRS
IRS: Don't let ALEC lobby at taxpayer expense
Immediately investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council's tax exempt "charity" status and stop its corporate members from sticking taxpayers with the bill for their lobbying expenses.
Why is this important?
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) lets Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Telecom and Big Tobacco craft new laws alongside state legislators, all behind closed doors.
ALEC calls itself a charity, but in truth, it's a front for corporations to buy influence and push laws that benefit their private interests. And since the IRS takes ALEC's word for it, those corporations get to deduct their ALEC lobbying expenses from the taxes they owe!
Lobbying for huge corporations isn't charity, and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize ALEC members' tax writeoffs. Tell the IRS to investigate ALEC today and hold its member corporations accountable for any back taxes they owe.
ALEC calls itself a charity, but in truth, it's a front for corporations to buy influence and push laws that benefit their private interests. And since the IRS takes ALEC's word for it, those corporations get to deduct their ALEC lobbying expenses from the taxes they owe!
Lobbying for huge corporations isn't charity, and taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize ALEC members' tax writeoffs. Tell the IRS to investigate ALEC today and hold its member corporations accountable for any back taxes they owe.