[ [link removed] ]Tell the IRS: Revoke the NRA's tax-exempt status

Petition to the Internal Revenue Service:
"Revoke the National Rifle Association's tax-exempt status for
mismanagement and the misuse of assets for personal benefit."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Tell the IRS: Revoke
the NRA's tax-exempt
status

A new Senate report makes it clear: The NRA is not just a toxic and deadly
force in American politics, it is also a corrupt organization that doesn't
deserve IRS tax-exempt status.

The report found that the NRA paid for a trip to Moscow to solicit private
business opportunities for some of its leaders.^1 Using organizational
funds for personal gain like this is a clear violation of the rules
governing nonprofit organizations. So not only is the NRA trying to
partner with the Kremlin to pervert American democracy, it is breaking the
law to do so.

This is not the first time the NRA has faced questions about its
tax-exempt status – but it should be the last. Democratic senators are
calling on the IRS to investigate, and we need to demand that the IRS
revoke the NRA's tax-exempt status.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the IRS: Revoke the NRA's tax-exempt status. Click here to sign
the petition.

The NRA is a den of self-dealing and corruption. One past investigation
found that the NRA was so intertwined with its for-profit public relations
firm that it was hard to figure out where one stopped and the other began.
Former NRA President Oliver North and other top leaders received millions
in payouts from the ad firm. The organization is rife with sweetheart
deals, shady financial arrangements and misuse of funds. One former IRS
official said, the “litany of red flags is just extraordinary.”^2

On top of it all, Russia may have used the NRA to funnel foreign money
into U.S. elections. The NRA spent at least $55 million in the 2016
election cycle to advance not only its “guns everywhere” agenda, but
right-wing Republican extremism more broadly, including at least $30
million that was directly focused on electing racist, misogynistic and
xenophobic Trump. There is some evidence that Russian funds made up some
of that record NRA spending.^3

Senate Democrats recently released a report detailing the ties between the
NRA and Moscow. It confirms what we already knew: the NRA, working with
Russian agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, helped the Kremlin
extend its influence over far-right conservative circles in the United
States. But it also shows that NRA officials traveled to Moscow to boost
their private gun businesses and used nonprofit funds to do it.^4

The NRA has a long history of racism and reactionary, xenophobic and
violent rhetoric. There is more and more evidence that it is corrupt and
violates nonprofit laws, as well. It's long past time for the IRS to step
in, investigate and revoke the NRA's nonprofit status.

Tell the IRS: Revoke the NRA's tax-exempt status. Click below to sign the
petition:

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Thank you for speaking out,

Heidi Hess, Co-Director
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Catherine Kim, "[ [link removed] ]A new Senate report is the latest threat to NRA’s
tax-exempt status — and maybe its survival," Vox, Sept. 28, 2019.
 2. Sebastian Murdoch, "[ [link removed] ]NRA Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Over Shady
Business Practices, Report Says," HuffPost, April 19, 2019.
 3. Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, "[ [link removed] ]FBI investigating whether Russian
money went to NRA to help Trump," McClatchy DC Bureau, Jan. 18, 2018.
 4. Kim, "[ [link removed] ]A new Senate report is the latest threat to NRA’s tax-exempt
status — and maybe its survival."

Photos: Getty Images: Trump: Mandel Ngan, Putin: Mikhail Svetlov

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