{"id":1652616,"date":"2022-09-22T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652616"},"modified":"2022-09-22T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:33:08","slug":"irs-must-look-into-tax-breaks-zuckerberg-received-for-2020-election-meddling-complaint-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-must-look-into-tax-breaks-zuckerberg-received-for-2020-election-meddling-complaint-says\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Must Look Into Tax Breaks Zuckerberg Received For 2020 Election Meddling, Complaint Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firs-must-look-into-tax-breaks-zuckerberg-received-for-2020-election-meddling-complaint-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service should investigate whether Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, Priscilla Chan, and a host of left-wing nonprofits violated existing tax laws by intentionally pouring financial resources into the 2020 election to benefit then-candidate Joe Biden, a complaint from a conservative think tank says.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Renewing America alleges that the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, and the National Vote at Home Institute were engaged in a \u201cpartisan electioneering\u201d scheme led by Barack Obama\u2019s former campaign manager David Plouffe by pumping nearly half a billion dollars into the 2020 election to swing the contest to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and Chan claimed the money they gave to progressive groups was to help run the 2020 elections, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2022\/06\/07\/team_zuckerberg_masks_the_heavily_pro-democrat_tilt_of_2020_election_zuck_bucks_study_finds_835470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis from election data experts<\/a> has determined that the funds were \u201cdistributed on a highly partisan basis that favored Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by William Doyle, the left-wing groups\u2019 efforts \u201chad nothing to do with traditional campaign finance,\u201d but everything to do \u201cwith financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists, and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cZuckbucks\u201d grants, which were largely directed toward heavily Democratic localities in swing states, were essentially utilized to help fund a partisan get-out-the-vote operation.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS should immediately investigate the entities \u201cfor unlawful political activity and the receipt and use of improper personal income tax deductions for donations to one or more of those entities,\u201d one of the complaints reads. The complaint also says the left-wing, Democrat-staffed groups should lose their charitable tax status immediately. \u201cThese entities\u2019 charitable tax status should be immediately revoked for making expenditures for partisan campaign intervention, in direct and deliberate violation\u201d of federal rules, it adds.<\/p>\n<p>In an accompanying complaint addressing Zuckerberg and Chan\u2019s financial activities during the 2020 election, the Center for Renewing America similarly asks the IRS to investigate the couple for purportedly \u201cunlawful personal income tax deduction(s)\u201d since partisan activity is not eligible for such benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and Chan received \u201cimproper tax deductions\u201d for the massive grants to \u201corganizations engaged in conduct prohibited by the Internal Revenue Code in the 2020 election cycle,\u201d the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe leave to the Service to determine whether there is enough evidence to sustain a criminal investigation into Chan or Zuckerberg for tax fraud. Nevertheless, at the very least, it is incumbent upon the IRS to recoup what is likely a false tax deduction on a roughly hundred million-dollar order of magnitude: an unlawful taxpayer subsidy running to support Democrat<br \/>electioneering purposes,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving a reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techandciviclife.org\/100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$400 million<\/a> from Zuckerberg and Chan, groups such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life were instrumental in silently altering state and local election processes in the lead-up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway detailed such efforts in her bestselling book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/rigged-mollie-hemingway\/1139396959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections<\/a>,\u201d writing how Zuckerberg \u201cdidn\u2019t just help Democrats by censoring their political opponents,\u201d but that his financing of \u201cliberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations\u201d was \u201cthe means by which [Democrat] activists achieved their \u2018revolution\u2019 and changed the course of the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a genius plan,\u201d Hemingway writes. \u201cAnd because no one ever imagined that a coordinated operation could pull off the privatization of the election system, laws were not built to combat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As outlined in the Internal Revenue Code, donations not motivated for altruistic reasons, such as those that attempt to illicitly assist one party versus another, are explicitly prohibited.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service should investigate whether Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, Priscilla Chan, and a host of left-wing nonprofits violated existing tax laws by intentionally pouring financial resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}