Key Arizona Tea Party groups say IRS did not give them additional review

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Source: Capitol Media Services

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Several groups contacted Friday said they had not had their books audited. But the reason may be simple: The IRS was looking at organizations incorporated as a 501(c)(4), a particular type of nonprofit.

Trent Humphries, former president of the Tucson Tea Party, said his group took specific action to avoid such a review.

"We were warned by other groups that if you try to do type of 501 (c)(4) or anything like that, yeah, they're going to come after you, and hard,'' he said. Humphries, a co-founder of the organization, was a conscious choice not to seek that status.

Traditional charities, organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code cannot get involved at all in politics.

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