Ben Carson says he was targeted by the IRS over his beliefs

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By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun

9:21 p.m. EDT, October 3, 2013

Famed Baltimore neurosurgeon Ben Carson said this week he believes he was targeted for an audit by the Internal Revenue Service because of his vocal opposition to the Obama administration.

Carson said he had only his suspicions to go on, but this year was the first time his taxes had been audited by the IRS and he added that the agency had tarnished its reputation for trustworthiness in an earlier scandal.

"We are in a situation where a government agency has been used to harass opponents of the administration, which places everything that the IRS does in a light of suspicion," Carson said in an interview Thursday. "So whether this is a massive coincidence or if I was targeted, it looks suspicious."

Carson acknowledged that "there's no way to know" whether he was targeted and that the IRS would probably not admit to it, anyway. But he said he wanted to speak publicly about the audit because he is also uneasy that the IRS will oversee the tax implications of the new health care law, which he opposes.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bs-md-ben-carson-irs-20131003,0,5017502.story

[TheDebbieDee]

1. I'm sure he wasn't targeted but how will we ever know

that Carson has never been audited before? Only Carson and the IRS know for sure, and the IRS won't talk about it.....

ETA: I'd be willing to bet that some details are being left out of this story.......

[KamaAina]

2. I'll bet he failed to report some under-the-table payments from the Koch brothers