Challenges to a charity’s tax-exempt status have been increasing in recent months as politically motivated actors use disinformation to attempt to have the Internal Revenue Service (in the U.S.) or the Charity Commission (in the UK) strip the charitable status from nonprofits with which it disagrees.
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Report Details Rise of ‘Lawfare’ to Suppress Civil Society Groups – Philanthropy News Digest
October 1, 2021 Philanthropy News Digest offers an overview of a recent Charity & Security Network report, The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel, and quotes Kay Guinane,
New Charity & Security Network Report Raises Alarm on Use of Lawfare to Attack Nonprofits Protecting Human Rights in Israel and Palestine
Washington, D.C., September 28, 2021 — Today, the Charity & Security Network released a report—The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel—detailing a coordinated effort by politically motivated
The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel
On September 28, 2021, the Charity & Security Network published a new report, The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel. The report details coordinated efforts by politically
IRS Rejects Complaint Against Doctors Without Borders for its Medical Work in Gaza
In late August 2018 the Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC), which is spearheading legal tactics aimed at NPOs working in Palestine, announced via facebook that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rejected its effort to revoke the charitable, tax-exempt
Intimidation Campaign Using False Claims Act and IRS to Push Problematic Enforcement Policy on NGOs
This spring our monitoring picked up a surprising story. Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) had agreed to pay over $2 million to the U.S. government for allegedly providing material support to listed terrorist groups, in violation
Mind the Gap: When It Comes To Nonprofits the Tax Code and Sanctions Regime Are In Conflict
External Link: When U.S. sanctions laws are applied to U.S. charities, funds can be frozen indefinitely, despite tax rules that require they be distributed for charitable purposes when a charity shuts down. In the Oct.