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The Bribery Act 2010 (the "Act") received Royal Assent on 8th April 2010. It was due to come into force in April 2011, but the Ministry of Justice has...
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The Bribery Act 2010 (the "Act") received Royal Assent on 8th April 2010. It was due to come into force in April 2011, but the Ministry of Justice has...
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Cites Importance of Addressing Hunger in the Fight to Reduce Poverty
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Larry Snyder, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), today commended the signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which will improve the quality of school breakfasts, lunches and other foods sold in schools and strengthen nutrition programs that serve young children.
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The Charities Act 2011 received Royal Assent on 14th December 2011 and will come into force in March 2012. The Act does not change the law as it simpl...
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The new 'fit and proper person' test has introduced a raft of uncertainty into the taxation of charities and charitable giving. HMRC revised its guida...
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Equality Act 2010: Issues Affecting Charities
As recently reported ( see here), the majority of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 ('the Act') ...
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This new Act, which comes into effect on 14 March, replaces most of the Charities Acts of 1992, 1993 and 2006 and all of the Recreational Charities Ac...
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Article by Rebecca Strevens and Andy Williams
Rebecca Strevens and Andy Williams of Charles Russell LLP discuss the recently implemented Equality Ac...
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Douglas Bruce, a candidate for the Colorado Springs City Council, has spent more than 20 years in Colorado politics as an activist, a candidate and an office holder. He even founded a nonprofit charity in 2001 that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on various campaigns.
But in at least three years that Bruce operated the charity, called Active Citizens Together, he did not report the group's political involvement and expenditures to the Internal Revenue Service, as charities are required to do. From 2005 to 2008, ACT spent money on at least eight political campaigns.
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On June 9, the IRS's Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) recommended that additional assistance be provided to charities in setting executive compensation through their report, "Exempt Organizations: Getting It Right -- An Online Guide to Setting Executive Compensation for Charities.
ACT's online instructional tool, in the form of a webinar or tutorial, provides step-by-step advice for managers, boards and advisors of charities to assist in a wide range of areas, including the development of internal procedures and compensation comparables, reporting salary information on Form 990 and maintaining appropriate records necessary to meet the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness and comply with Section 4958.