[accmemberdiscussion] Spay/Neuter HSUS Update & Call for Action
- From: Djsdosido@xxxxxxx
- To: accmemberdiscussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:45:38 EST
If you haven't already, please contact our Alabama senators and your
specific Representative regarding this. I received responses from the offices
of both Senator Shelby and Senator Sessions. Senator Shelby's office even
sent a copy of the letter he sent to the IRS's National Director for
Legislative Affairs. Contacting them will only take a few minutes of your
time.
You may find their contact information at the link on the ACC web site.
Thanks!
Donna
SPAY & NEUTER UPDATE AND CALL FOR FOLLOW-UP ACTION
The IRS Tax Fraud Office in Fresno, CA has now received over 3,200
letters from concerned citizens from all 50 states - - over 1,100 were
documented by certified mail. This is extraordinary because the IRS has
probably never before received 100 requests about a single public
charity, let alone more than 3,200. Additionally, the Tax Fraud Offices
in Fresno CA and Washington DC are now in possession of more than 400
pages of documents that "document" that the HSUS has engaged in over
2,000 distinctly different lobbying activities over the last five years.
These documents clearly suggest that the HSUS has engaged in "too
much lobbying," which could result in the IRS revoking tax-exempt,
public
charity status of the HSUS, and assessing back tack taxes, penalties
and interest on the more than One Half of a Billion Dollars in revenue
that the HSUS received in the last five years. That could amount to
Tens of Millions of Dollars that the HSUS would have to pay to the IRS!
It is not too late for more letters to be sent to the IRS - - each extra
letter increases the pressure on the IRS to begin an audit NOW!
"Thousands of concerned citizens from all 50 states are asking the IRS
to audit the Lobbying Activities of the HSUS" is an impressive "sound
bite" that may best be used in asking your Members of Congress to also
make inquiries to the IRS about the HSUS. A number of you have already
sent E-Mails to your Members of Congress, and many have received
"boilerplate" non-responsive responses that were "ghost written" by
Staffers who are unaware of the "National Outcry" for an IRS audit of
the HSUS. That is why the time is now right for those of you who have
already sent an E-Mail to your Members of Congress, and for those of you
who have not done so, to consider either E-Mailing or FAXING the
following short letter to your Respective Members of Congress. Since it
highlights that many of the 3,200+ letters came from (your state), this
will be a red flag that will be brought to the attention of the Members
of Congress by their Chiefs of Staffs - - that is what typically
happens when they believe 10 or more of their constituents took the time
to write. That is why the following letter should be E-Mailed or FAXED
to your respective Members of Congress.
"The IRS Tax Fraud Office in Fresno, CA has received over 400 documents
that substantiate more than 2,000 distinctly different lobbying
activities of the Humane Society of the U.S (HSUS).; and has received
over 3,200 individual letters from concerned citizens in all 50 States
who are requesting that the IRS audit the alleged excessive and
under-reported Lobbying Activities of the Humane Society of the U.S., as
well as its tax-exempt, public charity status. Many of those requests
came from our State. I support those requests. Please let me know
when the IRS will begin its audit of the lobbying activities of the
Humane Society of the U.S." (This last sentence makes it harder for a
non-responsive, "boilerplate" response.)
To those who may question whether contacting your respective Members of
Congress will really make a difference, I wish to share part of a
response received by a breeder from her U.S. Representative: "I
directed my staff to contact the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and have
them respond directly to your concerns, since that agency is tasked with
assigning tax-exempt status to organizations. Additionally, I have
requested the IRS to provide a copy of that response to my office for
review. In the meantime, you can be sure that I will remember your
perspective should related legislation come before Congress."
Yes, thousands of letters and follow up communications with your Members
of Congress can and will make a difference, and could cause the HSUS to
be led to the "IRS SLAUGHTERHOUSE!"
Donna & the Dosido Gang
Remlap, Alabama
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