- Improved Service to Achieve Voluntary Compliance
- Preparing and Helping to File the Form 990 (speeches, workshops, tax forums)
- Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
- Guidance (including proposed regulations on (i) new requirements for supporting organizations, and (ii) excise taxes on donor advised funds; and final regulations on excise taxes on prohibited tax shelter transactions and related disclosure requirements)
- Exempt Organizations Voluntary Compliance Program (EOVCP)
- Looking Through the Eyes of the Exempt Community: Improving IRS.gov/eo
- Helping to Prepare Future Non-Profit Leaders (EO plans to develop a new educational tool for academic institutions, research centers and other entities that work to develop, cultivate and promote professionals who shape the non-profit sector)
- New 2009 Compliance Initiatives
- Charitable Spending Initiative (study to learn more about sources and uses of funds in the charitable sector and their impact on the accomplishment of charitable purposes – initial focus on organization with unusual fundraising levels and organizations that report unrelated trade or business activity and relatively low levels of program service expenditures)
- Gifts In-Kind (focus on valuation, expenditures involved in transactions, and accuracy in reporting)
- Governance
- Mutual Organizations – 501(c)(12)
- Student Loan Organizations
- Colleges and Universities
- Political Activities Compliance Initiative (PACI)
- Hospitals (follow-up report to 2007 interim report)
- Community Foundations
- Non-filer Initiatives – Ongoing Gaming
- Employment Taxes / Combined Annual Wage Reporting (compares W-2 and 941 data)
- Form 990 Non-Filers
- Public Charity Status (development of post-advance ruling procedures)
- Cyber Assistant: Web-Based Application for Tax-Exemption (test phase)
You can read more about the IRS Exempt Organizations division in its first Annual Report.