Until January 2014, you could go to the IRS website to find the answer to the question, where in the queue is my exemption application? For example, if in January you visited the IRS’s “Where Is My Application?” webpage, it reported that the IRS was “assigning applications received in May 2012.” As of last month, …
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House Releases Scathing Report on Lerner
Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS division on exempt organizations, may have pleaded the Fifth (twice), but that has not stopped the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from issuing a damning report about Lerner’s role in the recent 501(c)(4) scandal. Released Tuesday, the report accuses Lerner of leading efforts to scrutinize conservative groups, …
Lerner Pleads the Fifth – AGAIN
The theme of this week’s blogs is déjà vu. Earlier today we told you that the charitable deduction is being threatened – AGAIN. And Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS division on exempt organizations, refused to answer questions – AGAIN. Readers of this blog remember Lerner pleading the Fifth in May 2013 at a …
The IRS Wants Your Responsible Party to Keep in Touch
Several times each year we receive letters form the IRS for former clients who failed to update the IRS of changes in their contact information. The result of failing to keep the IRS, or any other regulator, apprised of new contact information can be devastating – including loss of exemption. Perhaps as a result of …
Tea Party Orgs Do NOT Forgive the IRS
Last year we asked you whether you had forgiven the IRS yet for the 501(c)(4) social welfare “targeting” scandal. It is clear that many Tea Party groups have not. A class action lawsuit accuses the IRS of singling out Tea Party members and other conservative organizations for unfair and illegal “intensive and intrusive scrutiny.” The …
Is Football an Unrelated Business?
It was just about six months ago that the IRS decided that it would start looking into unrelated business income reporting on a large scale. So it is perfect timing that this week the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is holding hearings to consider whether Northwestern’s football players can unionize. What does unionization have to …