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The group stated, “Our first finding of this investigation is that the former top deputy to Louis Lerner — Holly Paz — regained a high-ranking position within the IRS during the Biden Administration. Paz was placed on leave and ousted from her role at the IRS in 2013 amid allegations she targeted conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status.”
The scandal Paz was tied to involved IRS staffers deliberately delaying or denying tax-exempt status to conservative grassroots organizations, including Tea Party groups, while giving progressive groups a pass. The scheme unfolded as President Obama was seeking reelection, raising serious concerns about the agency being weaponized for political purposes.
AAF’s letter continued, “With allegations that the IRS maintains political bias and is still targeting conservatives, Paz cannot be allowed to maintain a role in the IRS.”
The group didn’t stop there. It made clear that if partisan targeting isn’t rooted out, the trust of American taxpayers will collapse. “Taxpayers deserve to have faith in those that receive a government salary and Paz has proved undeserving of the honor to serve the American public. The American Accountability Foundation will continue to investigate IRS leadership and implores the Trump administration to root out any anti-conservative partisan bias at the IRS,” it wrote.
The division Paz now leads is tasked with monitoring domestic and international firms with $10 million or more in assets — a position that has sweeping authority over global high-wealth tax enforcement and compliance.
And the timing couldn’t be worse.
The IRS is under fire for a separate crisis involving its technology systems. According to Sam Corcos, a technology adviser working with Treasury Secretary Bessent and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the IRS’s tech infrastructure is not just outdated — it’s a full-blown catastrophe.
“This is a huge program that is already 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget,” Corcos said during an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News.
Corcos revealed the agency is still running ancient mainframes powered by COBOL and Assembly, decades-old programming languages that have long since been retired by private industry. “Virtually every bank has done this, but we’re still using a lot of those old systems,” he said.
He went on to say, “Typically, in industry, this takes a few years and maybe a few hundred million dollars. We’re now 35 years into this… It was supposed to be delivered in 1996.”
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The bigger problem, according to Bessent, is not the IRS employees themselves, but the contractors who have entrenched themselves within the agency.
“Many of the employees are fantastic. It’s this consultant group. They’re like a boa constrictor. They’re like a python,” Bessent said. “They’ve constricted themselves around our government, and the costs are unbelievable. They’re being passed on to the American taxpayer.”
Between partisan actors like Paz regaining power and a crumbling infrastructure bleeding taxpayer money, the IRS is under a growing cloud of scrutiny.
One thing is clear — the public’s patience is wearing thin, and conservatives are demanding answers.
