REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Navigating the Complex Rules That Describe a Public Charity
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in North Carolina and South Carolina
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Private Foundation Advocacy
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Legislative Lobbying and Advocacy Rules for Public Charities
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities - Candidate Campaign Intervention
In the Weeds With New Supporting Organization Regulations
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Alaska and Hawaii
Five Tax Traps for Business Lawyers Advising Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Basics: Operating Foundation Rules
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 3: Private Foundation Approaches to Policy Advocacy Allowed by the Internal Revenue Code
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 2: Legislative Lobbying Activities by Public Charities
Nonprofit Basics: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities Part 1: Candidate Campaign Intervention
Nonprofit Basics: Navigating the Complex Rules That Describe a Public Charity
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. Episode 75 is the tenth in a series of Quick Tip episodes focusing on the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations. Today, Cynthia Rowland and Joe...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. Here we are, solidly in the 2024 election year, and that means that private foundations need to refresh their understanding of election year issues for organizations...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. As most listeners are undoubtedly aware, 2024 is an election year, and that means that charities and private foundations need to refresh their understanding of...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I’m Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 66 of EO Radio Show. Happy New Year to all of you! As most listeners are undoubtedly aware, 2024 is an election year, and that...more
For tax-exempt public charities, benevolent acts must be considered within the guardrails of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. To enjoy tax-exemption as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3), the...more
On March 17, 2023, the IRS Exempt Organizations and Government Entities Division published two Technical Guides: (1) TG 1 Instrumentalities of the United States, Government Corporations, and Federal Credit Unions; and (2) TG...more
Summary: Commonwealth challenges the IRS’s denial of application for tax exemption under 501(a), claiming, by submission for declaratory judgment, to be an organization described in section 501(c)(15). Commonwealth was...more
IRS Inquiries and Examinations, Generally – Sections 6201 and 7602. Generally, the IRS is authorized and required by 26 U.S.C. § 6201(a) “to make the inquiries, determinations, and assessments of all taxes” imposed by the...more
Sales tax . . . A (if not the most) commonly overlooked tax for nonprofit organizations. This Freeman Law Insights blog focuses on sales tax regime applicable to “admissions” collected by or for nonprofit organizations in...more
Summary: XC Foundation (“XC”) was incorporated in California in 2007. In 2008, the IRS issued XC a determination letter recognizing it as exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) and as a private foundation...more
In the Netflix series, Breaking Bad, character Jesse Pinkman exclaimed, “Yeah, Science!!” as his meth-lab mentor, Walter White, displayed how chemistry can be used to hone their joint venture. While the activity in which they...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of September 26th, 2022, through September 30th, 2022 Patitz, Moody v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-99 | September 27, 2022 | Weiler, J. | Dkt. No. 2784-19 Powell and Iakovenko v. Comm’r, T.C. Summary...more
Conference realignments. TV deals continuing to soar. Name, image and likeness. If there is one thing that has recently come to define college sports, it is the constant flux and the ebb and flow of change permeating the...more
Can and should your religious organization seek church status with the IRS? A look at a few pros, cons, and due diligence considerations....more
On July 1, 2022, the IRS, Director of Exempt Organizations issued an array of final adverse determinations with respect to organizations seeking exemption under 26 U.S.C. sections 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(7). In these...more
Through nearly 20 years of law practice–15 of which have been focused on the representation of tax-exempt organizations–this writer has been involved in numerous seemingly simple–and some cutting edge–applications for...more
On January 6, 2022, the Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) released its Fiscal Year 2021 Accomplishments Letter. Here is a summary below...more
On October 21, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released Notice 2021-56 (the “Notice”), which sets forth the additional requirements a limited liability company (“LLC”) must satisfy to obtain a determination...more
As discussed in prior articles, there are several options for tax-incentivized giving, ranging from the informal and low-involvement to complex and highly involved structures. Many choose to adopt a more formal approach to...more
Freeman Law’s “The Tax Court in Brief” covers every substantive Tax Court opinion, providing a weekly brief of its decisions in clear, concise prose. The Week of May 3 – May 7, 2021 - Chancellor v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo....more
• Based on a new review of nonprofit hospitals by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), a congressional investigation is expected that directly requests a number of specific hospitals to answer...more
In the past decade or so, the competition for executive talent in the tax-exempt sector of the United States economy has increased. Executives seldom begin and end their careers with the same organization and there is...more
There were several notable state tax opinions issued by the South Carolina Administrative Law Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court in the 1st quarter of 2018. A number of tax cases are also pending before the Court of...more