1 – Weekend Reading
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – Will Government Speakers Be Able to Go to San Francisco?
4 – Audits, Appeals, and Litigation: Trends and Tactics
Month: August 2013
EO Tax Journal 2013-157
1 – Holly Paz and Her Family under Attack
2 – Petitioners Take Their Lumps in Tax Court
A – Capital Gymnastics Booster Club
B – Partners in Charity
EO Tax Journal 2013-156
1 – IRS Is Targeting the American Legion with New Set of Guidelines
2 – The Appreciated Property Scam
3 – Patrick Leahy Calls for Eric Holder Pot Hearing
4 – IRS Kills Tax Exemption Of Foundation Pushing Eternal Life
5 – Update on Colleges and Universities
EO Tax Journal 2013-154
1 – EO Committee Transcripts
2 – News From the IRS and Department of Treasury
3 – Third Standing Case Involving Freedom from Religion Foundation
EO Tax Journal 2013-153
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – NAAG and NASCO Release Detailed Agenda for Fall Conference
3 – ‘Four Key Discrepancies’ Bother Issa and Jordan
4 – The Other IRS Scandal
EO Tax Journal 2013-152
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Clinton Foundation in the News
3 – Rep. Van Hollen and Watchdog Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Flawed IRS Regulations
4 – Freedom from Religion Foundation Clears Standing Hurdle at District Court Level
5 – IRS’s Motion for Summary Judgment Granted — Petitioner Must Argue More Than ‘Some Metaphysical Doubt as to the Material Facts’
EO Tax Journal 2013-151
1 – Time to Bury the ‘Scandal’ for Good?
2 – New Documents Highlight IRS Scrutiny of Progressive Groups
3 – Republicans Say Not So Fast
4 – IRS Letter to Representative Sander Levin
5 – IRS Screening Workshop PowerPoint
6 – IRS Screening Workshop Notes – July 28, 2010
7 – Heightened Awareness Issues PowerPoint
EO Tax Journal 2013-150
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – Two More New News Organizations Recognized
3 – Gee, That Looks Familiar
4 – Does Section 501(c)(16) Have a Public Policy Requirement?
EO Tax Journal 2013-149
1 – Today’s Email Contents
2 – Darrell Issa, This Generation’s Joe McCarthy
3 – Stalled Applications for Section 501(c)(3) Status: Is it Time to Sue the IRS?
4 – ABA Submits Comments on Proposed Equivalency Regulations
EO Tax Journal 2013-148
1 – End of Week Comments
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – Ellen Aprill’s Exchange of Emails with ECFA’s John Van Drunen
4 – Americans United Slams ECFA Report
5 – Senator Grassley’s Latest Comments on NYU
6 – Tax Analysts Files Legal Action Against the IRS
7 – Fictitious Letter to Lois Lerner Surfaces, Turns Out to Be Fictitious
8 – Real Letter to GAO: Boustany Wants ‘Top to Bottom Asssessment’ of EO’s Exam Selection Process
9 – IRS Issues Proposed, Final, and Temporary Regs for Hospitals on CHNA Excise Tax Return
EO Tax Journal 2013-147
ECFA Commission Recommends Easing Political Restrictions on (c)(3)s
EO Tax Journal 2013-146
1 – How Did It All Go So Wrong? Others’ Views
2 – House Oversight Committee Seeks E-mails about Official Business Conducted by IRS’s Lerner on Non-Official Account
3 – TEB Phone Forum: Monitoring Post-Issuance Compliance
4 -July Filings for Section 527 Political Organizations Available
5 – Pro-Life Groups Continue to Battle IRS Scrutiny
6 – Many D.C. Think Tanks Now Players in Partisan Wars
EO Tax Journal 2013-145
1 – Reform the IRS, But Leave Politics Out of It
2 – Camp, Boustany Demand IRS Cease Practice of Targeting
3 – Simultaneous Release of 2013-2014 Priority Guidance Plan and Fourth Quarter Update to the 2012-2013 Priority Guidance Plan
4 – Periodic Review of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
5 – Cause of Action Files IRS Complaint Against Enroll America For Violating the Internal Revenue Code
EO Tax Journal 2013-144
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Corbin Announces Personnel Changes
3 – Ways and Means Chairman Alleges Continued IRS Targeting
4 – Levin Statement on Ways and Means GOP IRS Release
5 – OSDV Foundation Announces its IRS Tax-Exempt Determination Concluding a Record 6-Year Application Review
6 – Open Source Voting Machine Reborn After 6-Year War With IRS
EO Tax Journal 2013-143
1 – Comments on Yesterday’s Remark
2 – Latest IRS ‘Scandal’ Update
3 – Issa’s Shifting Goal Posts on the IRS Scandal
4 – IRS Scandal Hits 3 Month Mark — Where’s the Accountability, Mr. Obama?
5 – FEC Chair Requests Probe of Agency’s Ties with IRS
6 – Issa Makes Document Request of FEC
7 – Assume a [FEC-IRS] Scandal
8 – Roady Seeks IRS Guidance on Nonprofit News Organizations
EO Tax Journal 2013-142
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – Clarification to Charitable Deduction Limit for Corporations
3 – Innocent Bystander Defense in IRS Office of Chief Counsel?
4 – N.J. Charities Must Return Donated Money If Not Used as Donor Intended, Appeals Court Rules
5 – JFNA Still Awaiting DAF Guidance after Seven Years
EO Tax Journal 2013-141
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Latest Ziva Update
3 – Transcript of Session on Corporate Philanthropy
EO Tax Journal 2013-139
1 – The August ‘Recess’ Has Arrived — Thank God
2 – Werfel and Issa End Last Week with Angry Exchanges
A – Issa Blasts Werfel at August 2 Hearing of the Government Operations Subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee
B – Werfel: Statements by Issa and Jordan ‘Inaccurate and Unfair’
C — Issa: ‘Extremely Disappointed’ with the IRS’s Lack of Full Cooperation
3 – Finance Committee IRS Interim Investigation Update
4 – Cummings, Connolly Call on IRS IG to Testify on Objection to Producing Documents about Progressive Groups
EO Tax Journal 2013-138
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – President Obama Announces His Intent to Nominate John Koskinen as IRS Commissioner
3 – Hatch Slams Administration for Undermining Bipartisan IRS Investigation
4 – Ways & Means Democrats: GOP Continues Baseless IRS Attack Despite No Evidence of Political Motivation
5 – Camp, Boustany Question IRS, FEC Communication
6 – Camp, Boustany: IRS Requesting Information on Prayers Disturbing
7 – More Fall Educational Opportunities
EO Tax Journal 2013-137
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Yesterday’s Remarks of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
3 – New [Republican] Analysis Confirms Conservative Groups Faced More Questions, Denials and Delays than Progressive Groups
4 – Levin: Republican IRS Analysis Noteworthy for its Missing Information
5 – Honeymoon Definitely Over: Werfel Now Being ‘Excoriated’ by Issa and Jordan — Can a Divorce Be Far Off?
6 – Politically Connected Nonprofits Have Long Bested the IRS (Sunlight Foundation)
7 – Worthwhile Reading (Gene Steuerle)
8 – More Worthwhile Reading (Pablo Eisenberg)