Well, its competitors have a complaint: that its tax-exempt status gives it an unfair advantage.
Congress wrote the 501(c) code to provide tax-exempt status to a broad range of groups.
In the past, these groups would have claimed tax-exempt status as Sec. 527 organizations.
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The IRS has facilitated the tax-exempt status of journalism organizations for over 50 years.
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He points to longstanding liberal tax-exempt groups and says conservatives have been unfairly targeted.
On political oversight of tax-exempt groups, plenty of mischief can be made far from Washington.
Some tax-exempt organisations are allowed to conduct political activities, but it cannot be their primary mission.
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Ms. Ingram was in charge of tax-exempt and government entities until the end of 2010.
We have learned that some tea party groups had unduly long wait times for tax-exempt status.
Eventually, the IRS granted granted this group tax-exempt status -- after well over a year.
" The Sigar audit, the official added, "does not carefully distinguish between taxable and tax-exempt contracts.
Opponents claim these groups are abusively claiming tax-exempt status to keep their donor lists secret.
Additionally, most charitable organizations will post evidence of tax-exempt status on their web site.
Now 52, he pioneered a way of turning industrial development bonds into tax-exempt money market funds.
The assets are then sold, with most of the taxable gains attributed to the tax-exempt charity.
One can only hope that he owns some tax-exempt inflation-indexed bonds, just in case.
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Nor does the law prevent someone from prospering from the tax-exempt specialty of public broadcasting.
Indeed, any plan to tinker with the tax-exempt status for munis creates a double-edge sword situation.
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It would get more tax revenue from a retailer than from a tax-exempt church.
Returns on investment could vary from 3% on tax-exempt bonds to 8% for equity partners.
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The tax code would be cleaner, and our politics fairer, if no one enjoyed any tax-exempt advantages.
The targeted groups had tax-exempt status that allowed them to participate in certain kinds of political messaging.
It was designated as the central facility for processing applications for tax-exempt status that required further review.
Gift or no gift, tax-exempt organizations are not supposed to give large sums to select private individuals.
Alpha among active Fixed Income Managers (taxable and tax-exempt) has been improving over the past five years.
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Tax-exempt organizations which make money this way are supposed to turn the profit over to the government.
Interest from tax-exempt bonds will remain free of federal taxes and the Medicare tax on unearned income.
The announcement came on yesterday, the same day the state began pricing the tax-exempt and taxable bonds.
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These categories have different requirements, and a few impose stricter rules if organizations want to claim tax-exempt status.
Those IRS employees who singled out conservative groups for scrutiny over their tax-exempt status were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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