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The Internal Revenue Service has announced the opening of an electronic system small tax-exempt organizations can employ to file annual returns using Form 990-N. Filing of such returns is required by the federal Pension Protection Act of 2006 for organizations normally having annual gross receipts of $25,000 or less, effective for tax years beginning in [...]

The Internal Revenue Service has denied a federal income tax exemption to a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code after that entity changed its purposes and projected programs numerous times during the course of the exemption application process and failed to provide the IRS sufficient detailed information to allow the Service [...]

The Internal Revenue Service has announced a new compliance initiative directed at use of tax-exempt bond financing by charities. The initiative will involve the Service’s sending surveys to all types of charities using proceeds of tax-exempt bonds issued by governments on behalf of institutions. Nonprofit Organizations Update Fall 2007 Publish at Scribd or explore others: [...]

The IRS has noted that the safe harbor does not apply in cases where a group has failed to report contributor names on Form 8872. However, the IRS also points out that it can waive penalties outside of the safe harbor if it finds that failure to report any required information was nonetheless due to [...]

The Internal Revenue Service has issued tax forms that would be used to collect information from charities and certain other exempt organizations with respect to certain structured insurance contracts. The reports from the nonprofits are to be used by the IRS in conducting a Congressionally mandated study as specified in the Pension Protection Act of [...]