1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – The EOTJ Mailbag
3 – Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp to Merge with Richardson Patel
4 – Exempt Organizations, Employment Taxes and Information Reporting (Part 2)
Month: June 2015
EO Tax Journal 2015-125
1 – Clarifications to the Requirement in the Treasury Regulations Under § 501(r)(4) that a Hospital Facility’s Financial Assistance Policy Include a List of Providers
2 – Exempt Organizations, Employment Taxes and Information Reporting (Part 1)
EO Tax Journal 2015-124
1 – Another Day, Another IRS Hearing
2 – House Oversight Hearing Wrap-Up
3 – TIGTA’s Prepared Testimony
EO Tax Journal 2015-123
1 – TIGTA Inspector General to Testify Today on Lost Emails
2 – Off with His Head?
3 – Missing IRS Emails: An Update from the Inspector General
4 – Should Hate Groups Qualify under Section 501(c)(4)?
5 – On-Demand EO Webcasts Now Available
EO Tax Journal 2015-122
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – Do Only Republicans Care about FOIA Compliance?
3 – Two Easy Denials Released, Both Applicants Should Have Separately Incorporated Exempt Activities
A – Substantial Commercial Purposes Overwhelm Exempt Purposes (Denial 201525012)
B – Helping Struggling Farmers to Avoid Foreclosure Too Open-Ended, Among Other Problems (Denial 201525014)
EO Tax Journal 2015-121
1 – Former NY State AG’s Charities Bureau Chief Jason Lilien Joins Loeb & Loeb in New York
2 – Grassley, Thune Introduce Comprehensive Taxpayer Bill of Rights Legislation
3 – Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Orders IRS to Account for ‘Lost’ Emails
4 – Applicant Denied for Providing Services for Market-Rate Fees, such as Consulting and Grant Writing, in a Commercial Manner (Denial 201525011)
EO Tax Journal 2015-120
1 – D.C. Circuit Shows IRS and DOJ the Door
2 – Proposed Regulations Offer Guidelines for New State-Sponsored ABLE Accounts for People with Disabilities
3 – AICPA Seeks Revisions to Section 4944 Regs
4 – D.C. Circuit Agrees Z Street Seeks Not to Restrain ‘the Assessment or Collection’ of a Tax, But Rather to Obtain Relief from Unconstitutional Delay
EO Tax Journal 2015-119
1 – Save the Date
2 – Walmart Foundation in the News
3 – Commentary on ACT Committee Report
4 – Proposed Legislation: Adverse Action on Church Politicking to Require IRS Commissioner’s Consent and Notification to Tax-Writing Committees
5 – Is the White House Re-Writing the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations?
EO Tax Journal 2015-118
1 – ACT Committee Recommends More Form 990 Electronic Filing, More Form 990-N Information
2 – Koskinen Makes Amends for Prior IRS Response to Rep. Blackburn
3 – Major Foundations to Help Fund Climate Change Solutions
EO Tax Journal 2015-117
1 – Annual ACT Meeting Today
2 – Conservative Media Finds IRS’s ‘Latest Excuses’ for Not Releasing Lerner Emails ‘Nothing Short of Infuriating’
3 – Judicial Watch: IRS Finds New Lois Lerner Emails
4 – Issa: IRS Obstructing Release of 6,400 Recovered Lois Lerner E-Mails
5 – IRS’ Response to District Court’s Order re Lerner Emails
EO Tax Journal 2015-116
1 – Ruth Madrigal and Tammy Ripperda Wow CPAs
2 – Volunteers in Exempt Organizations (Part 2)
EO Tax Journal 2015-115
1 – Transcripts of ABA’s EO Committee May 8 Meeting
2 – Volunteers in Exempt Organizations (Part 1)
EO Tax Journal 2015-114
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – IRS Will Have to Do More with Less
3 – The EO Practitioner’s Perspective: Addressing Common Exempt Organizations Issues that Lack Up-to-Date Guidance (Part 2)
EO Tax Journal 2015-113
1 – IRS to Drop Appeal, Give Up Form 990 Data in MeF Format
2 – Hatch, Ryan Demand Complete Documents from Treasury on Efforts to Change Rules for Tax-Exempt Groups
3 – The EO Practitioner’s Perspective: Addressing Common Exempt Organizations Issues that Lack Up-to-Date Guidance (Part 1)
EO Tax Journal 2015-112
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – The IRS Chief’s Mistake about ‘Dark Money’
3 – Judicial Watch: Federal Court Issues Ruling Compelling IRS to Provide Answers on Lerner IRS Emails
4 – Limiting Invitations to Candidates of Only One Political Party Dooms (c)(3) Applicant (Denial 201523021)
EO Tax Journal 2015-111
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Trio Say Auto-Revoked Subordinates Need Help
3 – Valuation and Reporting of In-Kind Contributions Webinar
4 – Is Trying to Get a Pastor Elected Bishop a Nonexempt Activity? (Denial 201523022)
EO Tax Journal 2015-110
1 – WSJ Continues Its One-Sided Assault on IRS (Part 2)
2 – The Biggest Scam of All: Pastor Creflo Dollar Will Get His $65 Million Luxury Jet
3 – Chairmen Chaffetz and Jordan Request Information on the IRS’s “Special Project Team” Created in Connection to the Lois Lerner Investigation
4 – Representative Blackburn: IRS Response to Congress is Unacceptable
5 – John Koskinen — No More Mr. Nice Guy?
EO Tax Journal 2015-109
1 – House Oversight Committee FOIA Hearings Wrap-up
2 – Indiana’s Church Of Marijuana Granted Tax-Exempt Status From IRS
3 – Court Affirms California Attorney General’s Demand for Donor List
4 – Annual AICPA Not-For-Profit Industry Conference Coming Up
EO Tax Journal 2015-108
1 – Third Quote of the Week
2 – Yesterday’s FOIA Hearing
3 – Excerpts from June 3 Opening Statement of House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz
4 – IRS Testimony: ‘We’re Committed to Full Compliance with FOIA’
EO Tax Journal 2015-107
1 – Clinton Foundation Explained
2 – Editor’s Notebook
3 – Yesterday and Today’s FOIA Hearings
4 – Nonprofit Entities: Formation, Governing & Tax Considerations
5 – Summary of Discussion Whether Section 501(c)(28) Organizations Subject to UBI
EO Tax Journal 2015-106
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Second Quote of the Week
3 – On the Move
3 – On the Move
4 – Editor’s Notebook
5 – 2015 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award Recipients Announced
6 – Cleta Mitchell Documents IRS’s Scorn for FOIA Requests
7 – Energy Crisis? Climate Change? The Future of Exempt Organizations Focused on Energy and the Environment (Part 2)
EO Tax Journal 2015-105
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena to IRS Official for FOIA Hearing
3 – New ACT Member Raising Eyebrows
4 – WSJ Continues Its One-Sided Assault on IRS5 – Energy Crisis? Climate Change? The Future of Exempt Organizations Focused on Energy and the Environment (Part 1)