The IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities Division (TE/GE) recently published its FY 2023 Accomplishments Letter. One segment of customers covered by TE/GE is Exempt Organizations (EO), which includes charities, private foundations, business leagues, labor unions, and veterans’ organizations. The other two segments of customers are Employee Plans and Government Entities. The Accomplishments Letter...
IRS & FEDERAL TAX ISSUES
WCTEO 2024 Highlights
The following are just some of the many highlights from the 2024 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO). Because of a change in the timing of the WCTEO from late fall to late winter, there was no conference in 2023, but that gave us a few more months of developments...
Nonprofits and Energy Tax Credits
On June 14, 2023, the IRS issued proposed regulations under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) providing for nonprofit tax-exempt organizations to benefit from certain clean energy credits that would allow them to elect direct payment from the IRS in lieu of a tax credit. Before IRA, tax...
Highlights from the ABA Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting 1/19/2024
Here are some of the highlights from the American Bar Association Exempt Organizations Committee meeting held on January 19, 2024 as part of the ABA Midyear Tax Meeting. Thanks to all who looked after me when I took a bit of a tumble! Federal Tax Update from the IRS...
2024 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations
The 27th Annual Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO), my #1 go-to conference every year for the past 18 years, will be held on February 29 and March 1, 2024 at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in Downtown Los Angeles. This year, due to high demand, this...
Proposed DAF Regulations: Strafford CLE/CPE Program
Karl Mill of the Mill Law Center and I will be presenting a Continuing Legal Education / Continuing Professional Education (CLE/CPE) webinar for Strafford on the recently proposed donor advised fund (DAF) regulations. You can watch live on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 10 am to 11:30 am PST...
Proposed Donor Advised Fund Regulations: What is a Donor Advised Fund?
On November 13, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department released proposed regulations on donor advised funds (DAFs). We’ve been waiting on DAF regulations for more than 15 years since enactment of the DAF laws in the Pension Protection Act of 2006. During this period, DAFs have become...
An OpenAI-Inspired Nonprofit Law Story – Part Two
This post continues the story from Part One and is inspired by some of the drama involving OpenAI. In Part One, the board of a nonprofit that also served as the manager of a joint venture (JV) with several investors was dealing with a dilemma. On one hand they...
An OpenAI-Inspired Nonprofit Law Story – Part One
Imagine a charitable nonprofit whose mission is to educate people on the dangers of vaping. The board members, including the founder, want to advance the mission by producing and distributing a documentary film. An individual who recently lost their child to throat cancer wants to donate $2 million to...
Type III Supporting Organizations – Functionally Integrated
Final regulations for Type I and Type III supporting organizations became effective on October 16, 2023. The document published in the Federal Register with the regulations provides a helpful summary and background of the laws regarding Type I and Type III supporting organizations. In this post, we’ll focus on...