Current News and Developments Focus on IRS and Treasury The EOTJ Mailbag

EO Tax Journal 2013-199

1 – The EOTJ Mailbag

2 – Taxpayers Pay to Hire Workers’ Lawyers in IRS Scandal

3 – Legal Procedure: Critics Cry Foul as NFL Defends Nonprofit Status

4 – Ecotrust’s Spinoff of For-Profit Point 97 Reflects National Diversification of Nonprofits

5 – EO Emerging Issue Committee to Replace EO ATAT Committee

6 – Interim Guidance on Initial Classification of Applications

Current News and Developments PLRs, TAMs, and Denial Letters

EO Tax Journal 2013-196

1 – Is Credit Unions’ Exempt Status in Jeopardy?

2 – Political Group Fined for Failing to Disclose Donations

3 – Public Release of PLRs Is Back

A – Christian Ministry Ruled a Religious Order (PLR 201340015)

B – IRS Finds Organization’s Commercial Activities Negate Educational Activities (Denial 201340020)

Current News and Developments Focus on Congress Focus on IRS and Treasury

EO Tax Journal 2013-183

1 – Senator Moran Meets with Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel

2 – Reconciling Nonprofit Self-Dealing Rules

3 – Religious Hospitals and the Federal Community Benefit Standard – Counting Religious Purpose as a Tax-Exemption Factor for Hospitals

4 – Crossing the Tax Code’s For-Profit/Nonprofit Border

5 – Nonprofit Electioneering Post Citizens United: Has the System Become More ‘Complex’?

6 – Request for Applications for the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities

7 – Protecting the First Amendment from the IRS

The EOTJ Mailbag Transcripts (ABA EO Committee)

EO Tax Journal 2013-181

1 – Second Quote of the Week

2 – The EOTJ Mailbag

A – Medicine Cannot Match Wall Street

B – Automatic Revocations Now over 536,000

C – Commentary on How Lawyers Interact with Government

3 – ABA’s EO Committee’s September 20 Meeting

A – Committee Business

B – ‘News from the IRS and Treasury’ (Part 1)

C – Written Materials for ‘News from the IRS and Treasury’