Margo Thorning is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization advocating tax, energy, regulatory and environment policies that facilitate saving and investment, economic growth and job creation.
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At a recent OECD meeting, high-tax nations (with the support of the Obama Administration) put in place a bureaucratic monstrosity that is likely to become a world tax organization.
At its Global Tax Forum in Bermuda, which ends later today, the bureaucrats unveiled a new scheme that effectively would result in the creation of something akin to a World Tax Organization.
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"A lot of donors who were holding back are now going to feel free to give, " said David Keating, executive director of the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization and one of few Republican-friendly 527s that has been active this campaign.
One side of the debate features Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, which is the organization that maintains the no-tax increase pledge.
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Moreover, even if the organizers of Rolling Jubilee were willing to bet the tax status of their own organization on the prospect of kinder, gentler tax administration, it is not a good idea to experiment with unsophisticated middle class debtors.
Harvard University, for example, is a tax exempt organization in much the same way as is the Salvation Army.
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Instead, the agency's Tax Exempt Organization Director Lois Lerner broke the story last Friday in response to a question at a meeting of the American Bar Association in Washington.
Of the 6.6 million children up to age 19 that receive health insurance through SCHIP, 37% belong to parents who work for businesses with fewer than 100 employees, estimates the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan tax research organization.
The World Trade Organization has ruled that our tax export subsidies--known as Foreign Sales Corporation and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion provisions--are illegal.
And you could fund this increase in checkpoints by doing something the World Health Organization recommends: imposing a tax on alcoholic beverages.
Because of this, Mr. Gingrich and others at GOPAC decided to transfer the American Opportunities Workshop to a 501C(3) organization in order to attract tax-deductible funding.
While that counsel is an experienced tax attorney with a sterling reputation, he has less experience in dealing with tax-exempt organization law than does the expert retained by the subcommittee.
Just three weeks after the coalition sued the Cliffords, saying they had provided "false" information leading to "misleading" coverage by Forbes and others, the organization filed an amended 2006 tax return with the Internal Revenue Service.
Republicans also are questioning whether the IRS improperly released confidential donor information about the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization.
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The charity must be a bona fide 501(c)(3) organization , meaning that deductions are tax deductible to the donor.
There is no clear correlation between economic growth since the 1970s and top tax-rate cuts across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
Hong Kong and Singapore, incidentally, also share the less flattering distinction of having previously been dubbed as tax havens by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
Others, like Donorschoose.org (strictly for education-based projects) are registered as a 501(c)3 organization so that donors receive a gift receipt for tax purposes.
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Those taxes, which include sales and use tax and real estate tax, are generally payable by the organization unless exempt either by application or by agreement.
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An organization that crosses over the fuzzy line will be denied tax-exempt status.
The IMF doesn't withhold an employee's share of social security taxes, and all of the organization's employees are responsible for meeting their own tax obligations.
If a 501(c)(4) organization makes a gift it is not subject to the gift tax.
But for years, the organization has been criticized for being long on donor benefits and tax avoidance and short on charitable largess.
If you prefer to support relief efforts through another organization, be sure to check with IRS to confirm its tax deductible status if the deduction is important to you.
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The Forum for International Policy is on the same floor of the same Washington office building as the Scowcroft Group, and the Forums tax return lists the Scowcroft Group as a related organization.
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But with the corporate income tax rate being what it is, the second highest effective tax rate in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, then companies are doing what is logically sane for them to do.
Southern Baptists Against Clergy Tax Abuse (SBACTA) is not a real organization.
In the view of Mr. Gingrich's tax counsel, the motivation on the part of an organization or its agents is irrelevant.
However, one lesson is that tax exemption is worth a lot, and that an organization that loses it loses something of enormous value.
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