EO Tax Journal

1 – IRS Phone Numbers

Please toss last Thursday’s list of IRS phone numbers for the enclosed list. A number of the Office of Chief Counsel phone numbers were incorrect, as that office has combined its two former EO branches into one. Now they all have the same phone number, so you can’t possible dial the wrong number!

2 – Section 501(c)(4) Status of Groups Questioned

Will the persistence of Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center pay off? (See their latest letter, reprinted infra.) Will the IRS even look at these suspect 501(c)(4) organizations? Did the regulations make a grievous error in redefining “exclusively” to mean “primarily”? (My answers: probably not, probably not, yes) Continue…