1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Discriminatory Grantmaking?
3 – Program-Related Investment Approved
Month: August 2011
EO Tax Journal 2011-144
1 – More on Compensation
2 – Duke Basketball Follows Georgetown to China
3 – Healthcare Groups Suggest Detailed Schedule H Changes
4 – ALI-ABA Program on Tax-Exempt Organizations
5 – Calling Nan Downing — Have These Guys Been Audited?
EO Tax Journal 2011-143
1 – Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? (Pete Seeger)
2 – Meet You at the Ritz
3 – California Attorneys Find Recent PLR “Perplexing”
EO Tax Journal 2011-142
1 – Response to Beth Kingsley Interview
2 – Article Fails to Note Rules re Separate Entity Status
3 – More on the Gift Tax and Section 501(c)(4)
4 – Is This Organization a Good (c)(3)?
EO Tax Journal 2011-141
1 – Reaction to Latest ACT Committee Report
2 – EO Committee to Meet in the Mile High City
EO Tax Journal 2011-140
1 – FOIA Discussion
The editor knows how Charlie Brown feels when Lucy pulls that football away every year.
2 – Interview of Beth Kingsley
An expert on the permissible lobbying/political activities of exempt organizations addresses current issues in a wide-ranging interview.
3 – NACUBO Comments on Form 990
While NACUBO joins NASCO in seeking removal of the management company reporting loophole, TE/GE Commissioner Sarah Hall Ingram tells the press that the IRS supports continuation of this escape from reporting compensation.
EO Tax Journal 2011-138
1 – Verizon Strike
2 – Latest Revocation List Update
3 – Summer Interviews
EO Tax Journal 2011-137
1 – Owens Seeks Gift Tax Guidance in 501(c)(4) Context – Part 4
2 – Request for Miscellaneous Determinations
3 – FAQs on Electronic Filing
EO Tax Journal 2011-136
1 – Owens Seeks Gift Tax Guidance in 501(c)(4) Context – Part 3
2 – AICPA’s Comments on Announcement 2011-36
EO Tax Journal 2011-134
1 – Owens Seeks Gift Tax Guidance in 501(c)(4) Context
2 – AICPA’s Comments on Form 990
EO Tax Journal 2011-133
1 – Educational Resources
2 – Mark Your Calendar
3 – Taxpayer Dollars at Work in New York
4 – Media Matters
a – Gray Asks IRS to Revoke Media Matters’ Exempt Status
b – What Members of the EO Tax Bar Have Had to Say about Media Matters
EO Tax Journal 2011-132
1 – The Never-Ending Dilemma
2 – PwC Responds to IRS Request for Form 990 Comments
EO Tax Journal 2011-131
1 – EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Foundation’s Trustees Lose DP Status Upon Resignation
3 – U.S. Eases Aid Restrictions amid Somalia Famine
EO Tax Journal 2011-130
1 – EOTJ Mailbag
2 – EFCA Fears for Safety of Charity Workers if IRS Mandates Disclosure
EO Tax Journal 2011-129
1 – EOTJ Mailbag
2 – The Lack of Guidance Conundrum – Part 3 (The Solution)
3 – NASCO to IRS: End Exemption for Managment Companies
EO Tax Journal 2011-128
If you have not read the complaint filed against Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, reprinted below, please read first the following Mission Statement of a group I’m calling XYZ and decide whether XYZ is an organization that could qualify under section 501(c)(3). To me it is a close question whether an organization that investigates elected government officials can satisfy the requirement that it “does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.”