Group asks IRS to investigate Focus on the Family's tax status

: "Group asks IRS to investigate Focus on the Family's tax status

By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Scripps Howard News Service
November 28, 2005

WASHINGTON - A liberal watchdog group is challenging Focus on the Family's tax-exempt status, claiming founder James Dobson crossed clear IRS guidelines with his increased political involvement in recent years.

The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has sent a letter asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate and consider revoking the nonprofit corporation status of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Christian media empire.

The complaint focuses on Dobson's work on behalf of several Republican candidates in 2004, including Rep. Patrick Toomey's unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania."