Current News and Developments Focus on Congress

EO Tax Journal 2014-146

1 – What Are the Chances? (An IRS Love Song)

2 – Yesterday’s House Hearing

3 – Opening Statement of Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan

4 – Excerpts from Statement of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen

5 – Lerner Hard Drive Was ‘Scratched’

6 – Six Key Questions The U.S. Department Of Justice Needs To Ask As It Investigates Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails

Focus on Congress Focus on Courts Transcripts (ABA EO Committee)

EO Tax Journal 2014-144

1 – ABA Retirement Funds Not a (c)(6)

2 – Why the Freedom of Information Act Is Mostly a Failure

3 – Coming Attraction

4 – New Testimony: IRS May Still Have Missing Lois Lerner E-mails Backed Up

5 – Cummings Objects To Third Oversight Committee Hearing In Past Month With IRS Commissioner

6 – Navigating the Exempt Organization Process (Part 2)

Current News and Developments Focus on Congress PLRs, TAMs, and Denial Letters The EOTJ Mailbag

EO Tax Journal 2014-142

1 – The EOTJ Mailbag

2 – More on ‘Hobbled IRS’

3 – Yesterday’s House Hearing

4 – Cole’s Statement for Hearing on DOJ’s Response to the ‘IRS Targeting Scandal’

5 – Justice Department’s IRS Targeting Investigation Only Learned of Lois Lerner’s Missing Emails After Media Reports

6 – Justice Department Investigating the IRS Commissioner’s Delay in Notifying Justice, Congress about Lerner’s Lost Emails

7 – Top Ten Unsubstantiated Republican Claims on Justice Department’s IRS Investigation

8 – Weekend Reading (PLR 201428009)

Focus on IRS and Treasury

EO Tax Journal 2014-132

1 – Weekend Reading

2 – New 1023-EZ Form Makes Applying for 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status Easier; Most Charities Qualify (IR-2014-77)

3 – IRS Issues Procedures for Using New Form 1023-EZ (Rev. Proc. 2014-40)

4 – IRS Releases Final and Temporary Regulations to Allow for New Streamlined 501(c)(3) Application Process

5 – IRS Releases Proposed Regulations to Allow for New Streamlined 501(c)(3) Application Process