EO Tax Journal

Today’s objective is to gently move into the abbreviated work week after the long Memorial Day weekend.

1 – Battle of the Flags

4 – CREW’s Complaint

5 – Will IRS Go After 501(c)(4) Political Groups?

6 – Coming Fall Attractions Continue…

1 – Maybe “Homes Sweet Homes” will become “Home Sweet Home” Again

2 – UBIT Case Studies

3 – CBO Releases Report on Charitable Giving Tax Options

Weekend reading.

4 – Watchdog Group Seeks IRS Review of Organization’s 501(c)(4) Status Continue…

1 – More on “Bobby, Please Come Back”

2 – Current UBIT Issues Discussion Continue…

Even though I have been ignoring them, practitioner complaints keep rolling in about the IRS’s Charities & Non-Profits homepage. I have my first report today on these developments titled, “Bobby, Please Come Back.”

With a number of readers expressing interest in the Driscoll and Freedom from Religion Foundation cases, mentioned yesterday, I’m reprinting Deirdre Dessingue’s synopsis of these two cases, which she prepared in connection with her April 29 presentation at Georgetown Law’s Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations program. Continue…

I’ve been discussing the problems in becoming informed on EO litigation, especially pre-decisional developments. See email updates 2011-80 and 2011-83. Today I have the transcript of the recent D.C. Bar program titled “Litigation Developments for Exempt Organizations.” It’s a discussion of current EO cases that we rarely have from our friends in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. Continue…