{"id":37852,"date":"2013-06-19T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/judging-social-welfare-and-tax-exemption.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:52:36","slug":"judging-social-welfare-and-tax-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/judging-social-welfare-and-tax-exemption.html","title":{"rendered":"Judging Social Welfare and Tax Exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"
Organizations under tax reg 501(c)4 are both tax-exempt and don't need to reveal their donors. They also have to …<\/p>\n

… according to the law, be exclusively for "social welfare".
… according to the IRS, be primarily<\/i> for "social welfare:.<\/p>\n

The judgment call by the IRS in approving applications for being part of 501(c)4 (and if the organizations are at least 51%<\/i> for "social welfare") is at the recent IRS scandal as to whether conservative groups were being unfairly targeted for review. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But the underlying problem is this fuzzy line of how the IRS is allowing groups that aren't exclusively<\/i> about "social welfare" despite what the law says.<\/p>\n

Thus the threat of a law suit to have the IRS adhere to the law — which would remove a lot of that judgment call from the equation. That might exclude some current 501(c)4 organizations, of either political bent … but that's fine by me.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chris Van Hollen: IRS Rules To Be Challenged In Court<\/a><\/p>\n

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Organizations under tax reg 501(c)4 are both tax-exempt and don't need to reveal their donors. They also have to … … according to the law, be exclusively for "social welfare".… according to the IRS, be primarily for "social welfare:. The judgment call by the IRS in approving applications for being part of 501(c)4 (and if … Continue reading “Judging Social Welfare and Tax Exemption”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33814,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/my-take-on-teapartyirs501c4gate.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":0},"title":"My take on TeaPartyIRS501c4gate","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-May-13 11:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 501(c)4 status is a crock. Such orgs were originally designed to be exclusively about \"social welfare\". \u00a0The IRS interpreted\u00a0the requirements such that it became vague about what level of partisan political activity would disqualify a group, thus requiring a lot of questions be asked and a lot of judgment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/the-irs-501c3-organizations-and-open-source-software.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":1},"title":"The IRS,\u00a0501(c)(3) organizations, and open source software","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Aug-13 4:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the IRS is automatically flagging all applications by non-profit\u00a0open source organizations for\u00a0501(c)(3) (tax-exempt) status as subject to further investigation. Which might be okay, if said investigation didn't take years and years, which kind of bollixes up business models (even for non-profits).Reshared post from +WIREDThese former Netscape employees hatched a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29035,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/they-prefer-a-muddy-line-thank-you-very-much.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":2},"title":"They prefer a muddy line, thank you very much","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"GOP lawmakers are concerned the IRS might actually set for some rules on how much money \"social welfare\" organizations (501(c)(4)) can plow instead into political campaigns, with their donors retaining anonymity.Of course, setting rules and enforcing them are two different things, sadly.Reshared post from +Talking Points MemoThe battle over super\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33927,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/profiling-vs-neutrality.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":3},"title":"Profiling vs. Neutrality","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-May-13 9:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"It has occured to me several times\u00a0that a lot of the debate happening over the whole IRS501c4TeaPartyGate thing is like the issue of security profiling against terrorists. \u00a0\"We should focus security screening on young Islamic males. That's where we've had most terrorist attacks from.\"\"But we can't just assume that's the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/partisan-preaching-for-particular-people.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":4},"title":"Partisan Preaching for Particular People","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Nov-12 3:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm glad the FFRF is bringing this suit, since it's clear that IRS enforcement of the 1954 Johnson Amendment (banning 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations from campaigning for or against particular candidates -- more http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnson_Amendment) has been spotty at best, and non-existent of late.Honestly, though, as church-state-separatist as I am, I'm of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/political-pulpits.html","url_meta":{"origin":37852,"position":5},"title":"Political pulpits","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Nov-14 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the bottom line: churches get tax exemption on money donated to them and on their assets. 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