Paul Streckfus, Editor
1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – Limits on State Regulation of Religious Organizations: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
3 – Tax Exemption, Public Policy, and Discriminatory Fraternities
4 – Testimony of Cleta Mitchell, Foley & Lardner, Washington, D.C.
5 – Testimony of Common Cause’s Stephen Spaulding
6 – Testimony of Edward Greim, Graves Garrett, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri
7 – Testimony of Lawrence M. Noble, Senior Counsel, Campaign Legal Center
1 – Senate Hearing on IRS ‘Targeting’
2 – Opening Statement of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
3 – Judicial Watch: IRS Produces Recovered Lerner Emails
4 – Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Threatens to Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner
5 – Court Rules No Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting New York Attorney General from Obtaining Schedules B from Filers
1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – Treasury Comes out in Support of Koskinen
3 – Cummings Issues Statement on Republican Video, Letter, and Press Conference on IRS Treatment of Nonprofit Applicants
4 – MSNBC: House Republicans Pretend IRS ‘Scandal’ Still Exists
5 – House Republicans’ Letter Seeking Koskinen’s Dismissal
1 – House Republicans Say Koskinen Has ‘Got to Go’
2 – IRS and Democratic Response
3 – The EOTJ Mailbag
4 – Cause of Action Seeks Investigation of IRS Transfer of Tax Returns to DOJ and FBI
1 – Oops
2 – New York Times Blasts IRS’s Timidity
3 – House Oversight Chairman Says More to Come in ‘IRS Scandal’
4 – Can You Make Audit Selection Fair with a PARC?
5 – Golf Course and Restaurant for Members Results in (c)(3) Denial (PLR 201529013)
1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – Are Groups Really Concerned about the IRS?
3 – Say What? President Obama Concocts Ridiculous New Excuse for IRS Targeting Scandal
4 – Watchdog Report: IRS Audit Process at Risk of Abuse, Targeting
5 – Yesterday’s Prepared Statements from House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing
A – Rep. Roskam’s Opening Statement: Review of IRS Audit Selection Process
B – Prepared Testimony of GAO’s Jay McTigue
C – Prepared Testimony of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
D – Prepared Testimony of Elizabeth J. Kingsley
E – Prepared Testimony of Joseph R. Metzger
1 – Another Excerpt from President Obama’s July 21 Remarks to Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’
2 – Hearing Today on IRS Audit Selection Process
3 – Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS Used Donor Lists to Target Audits
4 – SFC to Meet in Closed Session re Wrapping-up Its IRS Investigation
5 – IRS Clarifies Composition of Its Political Activities Referral Committees
6 – 47 House Democrats Oppose Republicans’ Campaign Finance Disclosure
7 – Democracy 21 Urges Senator Wyden to Help Block Efforts to Prevent the IRS From Acting on New 501(c)(4) Regulations
8 – Congress Watch: Attempt to Block IRS Rulemaking on Nonprofit Political Activity Would Exacerbate Problem of Money in Politics
9 – ‘Ill-Advised, Narrow Regulation’ Disrupting ‘Established Type III Supporting Organizations,’ Says Virginia Congressman
1 – Save the Date
2 – Excerpts from President Obama’s July 21 Remarks to Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’
3 – The Incestuous Art World
4 – New York’s AG Sues Children’s Leukemia Charity for Deceiving Donors and Using Vast Majority of $10 Million Raised for Non-Charitable Purposes
5 – Applicant Providing Housing on a Cooperative Basis to Members Denied (c)(3) Status (Denial 201529012)
1 – Uniform Disclosure Rules the Answer to Solving Politicking Issues
2 – ABA’s EO Committee to Meet in Chicago on September 18
3 – ABA’s EO Recommendations for 2015-2016 Priority Guidance Plan
4 – Applicant Found Not Pursuing (c)(6) Purposes But Improving Members’ Individual Businesses (Denial 201529010)
1 – Reaction to Obergefell Decision Continues
2 – Pablo Eisenberg: IRS ‘Paralyzed and Running in Circles’
3 – Roger Colinvaux: Commentary on SFC Working Group’s Individual Provisions
4 – Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors
5 – Applicant Operating a Restaurant with Evidence of Inurement Denied (c)(7) Status (Denial 201529011)
1 – Chairman Roskam Announces July 23 Hearing on TEGE Audit Selection Process
2 – Partnerships Denied Deductions for Conservation Easements Allowing Movable Homesites and Taxed on Disguised Sales of Homesites (Bosque Canyon Ranch v. Comm’r)
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Form 1023-EZ Application Process Gets Flunking Grade from TAS
1 – SFC Working Group, Business Tax Reforms
2 – DC Bar Session on Corporations and Partnerships, Followed by Luncheon Address by Tax Court Judge
3 – CRS Report on Expired Tax Extenders
1 – WSJ’s Editors Still Blasting the IRS
2 – Deductibility of Contributions to Section 115 Entities
1 – Senator Warner Seeks IRS Investigation of Nonprofit Subject to Bad Publicity
2 – Income of Clinically Integrated Faculty Group Practice of a Hospital and a Medical School Excludable from Gross Income under Section 115 (PLR 201528010)
3 – Section 501(c)(12) Organization that Established VEBA under Section 501(c)(9) May Dissolve and Distribute the (c)(9)’s Assets without Application of Section 4976 (PLR 201528038)
1 – Tax Officials Speaking at Private Gatherings – Grossly Unfair But All Too Common
2 – Senate Finance Report Includes EO Provisions (Part 2)
1 – 2015 NAAG/NASCO Conference Notice
2 – Senate Finance Report Includes EO Provisions
3 – Judge Holds IRS Did Reasonable Search for Records of Individuals Selected for Audit Because of (c)(4) Applications
1 – Editor’s Comment on Latest Judicial Watch Press Release
2 – Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Plan to Seek Criminal Charges of Obama Opponents
3 – One Way Ticket to Anywhere but Here (Denial 201527043)
1 – Articles of Interest
2 – Editor’s Comment on Latest TIGTA Report
3 – New IRS Inspector General Report Finds No Evidence That Lerner Intentionally Crashed Computer or Concealed Emails From Investigators
4 – Court Holds that Foundation Operated in a Manner that Inured to the Benefit of One Family Not Exempt
1 – Quote of the Week
1 – Next Issue: Monday, July 6, 2015
2 – One More Clouseau Memory
3 – Will Supreme Court’s Decision in Obergefell v. Hodges Allowing Same-Sex Marriages End Up Costing Religious Educational Institutions Their Tax-Exempt Status?
4 – Article Analyzes Obergefell’s Possible Impact on Tax Exemption
5 – Families USA: Give Patients the Information They Need to Plan Their Care
1 – This Week’s Annual AHLA Meeting
2 – Latest Rankings of EO Practices by The Legal 500
3 – IRS Works towards Making E-filed Forms 990 Available in Machine-Readable Format.
4 – New Jersey Hospitals May Face Property Tax Liability
5 – Constructing and Maintaining a Private Road Not a (c)(3) Activity (Denial 201526021)