Because 2008 is a national election year, tax-exempt IRC section 501(c)(3) organizations need to be especially aware of which political activities they are allowed to engage in, which actions are considered , and which could jeopardize their tax-exempt status. Charitable organizations have an interest in educating their members on political issues. Membership education may include issuing voter guides, sponsoring public forums, or organizing debates. Leaders of section 501(c)(3) organizations may freely express their political views as individuals, but must do so in a way that makes it clear that they are not speaking for the organization. Charitable organizations should be aware of rules concerning business activities that could be construed as political interven...
... allegations of political campaign activity by 501(c)(3) organizations have increased in recen...
The Kanawha County Republican Executive Committee is alleging that a reception held Tuesday to thank Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall for supporting health-care reform violated federal tax laws. In a press release issued Wednesday, committee Chairwoman Melody Potter said the event at West Virginia Health Right, a free clinic, broke Internal Revenue Code provisions that say 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations can't engage in political activity. Organizing for America, which is part of the Democratic National Committee, helped organize and advertise the reception.
I was struck by the hypocrisy in Randall Beach's column "Family feels heat." Beach explains how he and his family campaigned door- to-door in New Hampshire to persuade "undecided voters to turn toward Barack Obama and away from John McCain." Clad in their Obama buttons, eager to talk up their man, and starry-eyed about their ability to influence the folks in a "rural outpost" of New Hampshire to vote for Obama, the Beach family was intent on making this one of those important "educational experiences" that politically correct, modern parents favor. Imagine their dismay when the group that took them and their friends north told them that for legal reasons they could not talk about Obama. Beach says, "It was more subtle." He recounts that they "even had to take off (their) Obama buttons."...
... that, Planned Parenthood set up separate 501(c)(4) nonprofits (Planned Parenthood of Connecticu... entities can engage in limited political activity, including educating voters, but cannot campaign f...
...Supreme Court invalidated significant political speech restrictions in Citizens United vs. Federal... states that prohibit corporate political activity have stricken the corporate independent expenditur.... 3. Tax Issues . Federal tax law imposes additional r...For example, 501(c)(3) organizations may not spend any money to int...
In 2004, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") studied 110 § 501(c)(3) organizations and found that seventy-Jive percent of them had violated federal tax law by engaging in political-campaign activities during the 2004 campaign period. The IRS learned that many of these organizations did not understand the broad scope of the political-campaign prohibition and that organizations' leaders mistakenly spoke on behalf of their organizations rather than in their personal capacities separate from theirorganizations. Following the study, the IRS stated that any § 501(c)(3) organization that did not comply with federal tax law's statutory requirements and restrictions risked losing its tax-exempt status. As the 2008 campaign was in full swing, the IRS promised to step up its enforcement of § 501...
... focused on prohibited political-campaign activity by nonprofit organizations. 1 For example, variou...
... quiet campuses into hotbeds of political activity. But as tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations, colleg...
... removing the limits on commercial and political activity that currently clutter charity law. These...This ill-fated attempt to guard the border (3) of what will serve charitable mission has generat... granted under Internal Revenue Code [section] 501(c) (3). (9) It is important to distinguish this ta...
...Supreme Court invalidated significant political speech restrictions in Citizens United vs. Federal... states that prohibit corporate political activity have stricken the corporate independent expenditur... 3. Tax Issues. Federal tax law imposes additional ...For example, 501(c)(3) organizations may not spend any money to int...
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