ACORN, the embattled antipoverty advocacy group, took another hit yesterday as a second government agency cut off ties.
Joining the Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service said it is ending its relationship with ACORN in a tax assistance program that offered free advice to low- and moderate-income taxpayers.
The IRS said ACORN, which is embroiled in a scandal after employees were captured on hidden-camera video giving advice to a couple who were posing as a prostitute and her pimp, provided help on about 25,000 returns.
ACORN, however, said it had already suspended its tax program during an investigation being led by former Massachusetts attorney general Scott Harshbarger, raising questions about who broke up with whom.
The group released a letter, dated Monday, from chief executive Bertha Lewis to the IRS saying the group would “revisit our participation in your programs’’ after it resolves its problems.

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