The government shutdown hasn’t completely stopped the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is still collecting taxes during the government shutdown, but it isn’t sending out refunds or, members of Congress complain, complying with a subpoena to turn over documents to a congressional investigation into the agency’s targeting of tea party groups. Members of both the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Ways and Means Committee told the Washington Times yesterday they had stopped getting documents. October 15 is the deadline for filing by taxpayers who requested a six-month extension on their 2012 returns and the IRS says it- and all other deadlines- are still in effect.
