Paul Streckfus, Editor
1 – Cause of Action Scores Victory Against IRS
2 – Upcoming DC Bar Program
3 – 19th Annual Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organization
4 – Is the U.S. Tax Court the Worst Federal Court?
5 – Section 501(c)(3) Applicant Denied Based on Commercial Consulting Activities and Resulting Private Benefit (Denial 201535019)
1 – New Jersey Hospital Loses Property Tax Exemption
2 – Conrad Teitell Explains Four Expiring Charitable Provisions
3 – Statement of NTEU National President Tony Reardon
4 – Organization Revoked for Going from Providing Child Care to Selling Upscale Home Furnishings (PLR 201534016)
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – More Lois Lerner Emails Uncovered
3 – Judicial Watch Statement in Response to Disclosure of New Lois Lerner Email Account
4 – DOJ Status Report Notes ‘Toby Miles’ Email Account
5 – Housing Organization Denied (c)(3) Status (Denial 201534020)
1 – Another DAF Insight
2 – Demonstrating the Power of Journalism, John Oliver May Prompt IRS Crackdown
3 – Minister/Musician’s Organization Revoked for Inurement (Revocation 201534014)
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Book Review: Billion-Dollar Ball, by Gilbert M. Gaul
3 – AHLA’s Annual Tax Program Coming Up
4 – Ownership of Corporation’s Non-voting Stock Will Be Permitted Holdings and Will Not Constitute Excess Business Holdings under Section 4943 (PLR 201311035)
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
A – Commercial DAFs and Private Benefit
B – Advice on Best DAF Practices
C – Fidelity: Sale of ‘Complex Assets’ Within Reasonable Period of Time
2 – Editor’s Notebook
3 – Forum on Philanthropy: The Rise of Donor Advised Funds: Should Congress Respond?
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
A – Conference to Address DAF Issues
B – More on Pledges in DAF Context
2 – Editor’s Note
3 – Stop Universities From Hoarding Money
4 – John Oliver Pressures IRS for Televangelist Crackdown
5 – Televangelist Troubles: IRS Inaction May Help Celebrity Preachers Profit
6 – Rabbi Jack Moline Invites John Oliver’s Church to Join Interfaith Alliance
7 – Why Franklin Graham’s Salary Raises Eyebrows among Christian Nonprofits
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Editor’s Notebook
1 – John Oliver Skewers Televangelists and IRS (Part 2)
2 – Christian Faith Organization Retroactively Revoked Based on Inurement and Private Benefit (Revocation 201533022)
1 – EO Tax Associate Wanted
2 – HBO’s John Oliver Skewers Televangelists and IRS
1 – Surprise: Difficult Autumn Expected for IRS
2 – Minnick v. Commissioner — 9th Circuit’s Unpublished Holdings in Conservation Easement Donation Case
3 – Applicant Providing Open Source Web Applications for Free Denied (c)(3) Status (Denial 201533014)
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – The Sayings of Lois Lerner
3 – Big Donors, Big Benefits at Library of Congress?
4 – Weekend Reading: CCP Report on Treatment of Advocacy Organizations over the Years
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Today’s Gossip Tidbit
3 – Secret Money Will Continue to Influence Elections Without Clearer IRS Rules
4 – Final Agenda of Next Meeting of ABA’s Exempt Organizations Committee
5 – Minnick v. Commissioner – 9th Circuit Affirms Tax Court, Mortgages Must Be Subordinated When Conservation Easement is Donated
1 – Editor’s Notebook
2 – IRS Seeks Applications for Advisory Committee for the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division
3 – News from the Peripatetic Eve Borenstein
4 – Guidance to Practitioners Regarding Professional Obligations under Treasury Circular No. 230
5 – Rules for Determining a Taxable Beneficiary’s Basis in a Term Interest in a CRT upon a Sale or Other Disposition of All Interests in the Trust to the Extent that Basis Consists of a Share of Adjusted Uniform Basis
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Comings and Goings
3 – GOP Candidate Vows to Use IRS as Political Weapon
4 – Congressional Reaction to Senate Finance Committee Report
A – Thune: Republicans, Democrats Agree: IRS Delinquent With Treatment of Tax-Exempt Organizations
B – Isakson: IRS Political Targeting, Mismanagement Unconscionable
C – Grassley: Political Biases and Poor Management Went Hand in Hand
D – Cummings Responds to Bipartisan Senate Report on IRS
E – Chaffetz Statement on Senate IRS Targeting Report
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Why Did Lois Lerner Take the Fifth?
3 – More Evidence of Need to Move EO to a Truly Independent Agency
4 – It Was All Bristol Palin’s Fault?
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Editor’s Notebook
3 – Three Reports, Three Conclusions
4 – New York CPAs Recommend Changes to Form 990-PF
1 – Quote of the Week
2 – Highlights of Senate Finance Report on IRS ‘Scandal’
3 – Senate Finance Committee Releases Bipartisan IRS Report
4 – Hatch: Bipartisan Report Finds Unacceptable Mismanagement at IRS
5 – Wyden Floor Statement on Finance Committee Investigation of IRS Handling of Applications for Tax-Exempt Status
1 – The EOTJ Mailbag
2 – Bruce Hopkins’ Latest Book
3 – Hospital Study Looks at Charity Care
4 – Court Holds Barbara Bosserman’s Time Records Exempt from FOIA as Attorney Work Product
1 – Latest Survey on Federal Workforce
2 – Latest on Obergefell Decision
3 – Exemption of Organization Helping to Remediate Fuel Spills from Underground Storage Tanks Revoked (PLR 201531022)
1 – 2015-2016 Priority Guidance Plan Released
2 – Greg Colvin Explains Need for New (c)(4) Regs