Archive for August, 2015
EO Tax Journal 2015-159
1 – Surprise: Difficult Autumn Expected for IRS
2 – Minnick v. Commissioner — 9th Circuit’s Unpublished Holdings in Conservation Easement Donation Case
3 – Applicant Providing Open Source Web Applications for Free Denied (c)(3) Status (Denial 201533014) Continue…
EO Tax Journal 2015-158
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – The Sayings of Lois Lerner
3 – Big Donors, Big Benefits at Library of Congress?
4 – Weekend Reading: CCP Report on Treatment of Advocacy Organizations over the Years Continue…
EO Tax Journal 2015-157
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Today’s Gossip Tidbit
3 – Secret Money Will Continue to Influence Elections Without Clearer IRS Rules
4 – Final Agenda of Next Meeting of ABA’s Exempt Organizations Committee
5 - Minnick v. Commissioner – 9th Circuit Affirms Tax Court, Mortgages Must Be Subordinated When Conservation Easement is Donated Continue…
EO Tax Journal 2015-156
1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – IRS Seeks Applications for Advisory Committee for the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division
3 – News from the Peripatetic Eve Borenstein
4 – Guidance to Practitioners Regarding Professional Obligations under Treasury Circular No. 230
5 - Rules for Determining a Taxable Beneficiary’s Basis in a Term Interest in a CRT upon a Sale or Other Disposition of All Interests in the Trust to the Extent that Basis Consists of a Share of Adjusted Uniform Basis Continue…
EO Tax Journal 2015-155
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Comings and Goings
3 – GOP Candidate Vows to Use IRS as Political Weapon
4 – Congressional Reaction to Senate Finance Committee Report
A – Thune: Republicans, Democrats Agree: IRS Delinquent With Treatment of Tax-Exempt Organizations
B – Isakson: IRS Political Targeting, Mismanagement Unconscionable
C – Grassley: Political Biases and Poor Management Went Hand in Hand
D – Cummings Responds to Bipartisan Senate Report on IRS
E – Chaffetz Statement on Senate IRS Targeting Report Continue…