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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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.
Charities Partially Exempted from New Beneficial Ownership Rule
In issuing its final rule on beneficial ownership, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempted charities and nonprofit entities from the ownership prong of the requirement, but not the control prong. The rule, Customer
UK Charity Commission: Tackling Abuse and Mismanagement
Charities and their work can provide important protection against extremism and terrorism, according to the UK Charity Commission's annual report on Tackling Abuse and Mismanagement. "Civil society, of which charities are a key part, is also
Review of Legislative History Shows Treasury’s Position on Frozen Charitable Funds Without Basis
Representatives of the U.S. nonprofit sector have been seeking release of frozen charitable funds for charitable purposes since 2006 when 20 organizations sent a letter to the Department of Treasury asking for release of the funds for