Tax exemptions

Doctors and health care organizations are dealing with not only the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants, but also with changing tax laws and accounting standards.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities division is making plans for next fiscal year in hopes that Congress will provide more funding.

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The Internal Revenue Service agreed to grant tax-exempt status to Christians Engaged, a nonprofit that urges Christians to pray for elected officials and vote, after coming under pressure from conservatives.

A donor has asked the IRS to open a fraud investigation into a nonprofit that builds schools in Africa, and for Canada’s federal police to seize its records.

The Internal Revenue Service is confronting some barriers in detecting improper conduct by tax-exempt organizations that abuse the federal tax laws.

Colleges and universities that changed from for-profit businesses into tax-exempt nonprofits are prompting questions about the continuing involvement of former owners and officials.

The service is rolling out new systems and expanding forms that can be electronically filed by tax-exempt organizations.

The auction house was accused of helping a wealthy shipping company owner avoid paying income taxes on artwork he purchased.

The Internal Revenue Service is reversing course on the automatic revocation notices that it sent to more than 30,000 tax-exempt organizations.

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee want the agency to reverse the automated revocation of status for tens of thousands of nonprofits.

The Internal Revenue Service is starting with the customer support area of its Exempt Organizations unit.

New York is seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association as the state attorney general accused the gun rights group and its current and former senior officials of engaging in a massive fraud against donors.

Tamera Riperda, the commissioner who runs the Internal Revenue Service’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities division, is retiring on Sept. 30 after 33 years at the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is getting set to unveil its proposed regulations for the reporting of unrelated business income for tax-exempt organizations.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service for more guidance on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that imposes a 21 percent excise tax on tax-exempt organizations that pay over $1 million in compensation, or so-called “excess parachute payments,” to top executives.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that it is going to let charities and nonprofits electronically apply for tax-exempt status with a newly revised Form 1023, starting later this month.

Several recent tax law changes promise to help religious groups, houses of worship, charities, private foundations, utilities and other tax-exempt organizations, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Many dark money groups that raise funds for political and social causes and don’t pay taxes aren’t notifying the Internal Revenue Service of their intent to operate as tax-exempt organizations under section 501(c)4 of the Tax Code and haven’t been penalized, according to a new report.