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Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Nonprofit organizations have won an extension of a generous tax incentive for donations of land and property that are important for conservation or historic purposes. A two-year [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn While charities of all kinds are focused on efforts to extend and expand a tax break that encourages people to donate money from their individual retirement accounts, [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn When nonprofit officials and advisers get their first peek, expected this week, at the Internal Revenue Service's overhaul of the primary tax document that charities file each [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Following widespread confusion among charities over how much information they must provide about their key officials to the Internal Revenue Service, the tax agency has posted informal [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service says it is investigating a possible tax scam involving charities that accept donations of a type of property lease. In a letter to [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means plans to hold hearings on tax-exempt groups. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who chairs [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service has recalculated the value of hundreds of pieces of artwork for which deductions were claimed by taxpayers who donated them to charities or [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn A leading coalition of nonprofit organizations says the Internal Revenue Service isn't paying enough attention to charities. Independent Sector, a Washington coalition of major charities and foundations, [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn * The IRS is reminding small charities and other nonprofit organizations that, beginning next year, they will have to file information annually with the tax agency. Charities [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Washington -- More than 100,000 taxpayers may have cheated the government of as much as $1.8-billion worth of revenue last year by claiming improper deductions on their [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn As the Internal Revenue Service continues its crackdown on charities that become involved in political campaigns, a Congressional report takes the tax agency to task for failing [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn An IRS advisory committee is seeking feedback from charity officials and legal experts on whether the tax agency should create a new program for tax-exempt organizations that [...]

Byline: Peter Panepento and Elizabeth Schwinn New Hampshire's Supreme Court has ruled that a nursing-home operator meets the standards of being a nonprofit organization and should not be required to [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn New statistics released by the Internal Revenue Service show that deductions claimed for charitable contributions rose to $165.5-billion in 2004, compared with $145.7-billion in 2003, an increase [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service has published guidelines explaining a new law that offers tax benefits to donors who make gifts to charity directly from their individual retirement [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The IRS has issued instructions to help charities claim a refund of taxes they paid on long-distance telephone calls in years past. The tax agency said in [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn In a legal battle being watched by nonprofit hospitals around the country, an Illinois medical center is appealing the state's decision to revoke the organization's exemption from [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Many of the organizations that have applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status should expect lengthy delays before approval, due to a backlog of applications, [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn A key Senate committee is considering whether the federal government should require nonprofit hospitals to justify their tax-exempt status by providing a minimum level of free health [...]

Byline: Holly Hall and Elizabeth Schwinn Just days after Congress passed a sweeping new tax law last month, Jeff Comfort, a fund raiser at Georgetown University, got in touch with [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The new tax law signed by President Bush last month contains numerous provisions designed to curb abuses by nonprofit groups and donors. But as legal experts and [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn A federal appeals court has dealt a significant blow to the Internal Revenue Service in its efforts to crack down on charity officials and companies that receive [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service has asked nonprofit groups and others to comment on how the agency should enforce a law Congress passed last month to impose steep [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn In an effort to speed up a long-awaited update of Form 990, the federal informational tax return charities are required to file, an Internal Revenue Service advisory [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Beginning July 1, the IRS will raise the fees it charges charities to apply for tax-exempt status, the revenue service has announced. Organizations seeking first-time rulings that [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service has begun looking into how well nonprofit hospitals are complying with federal law requiring them to provide social benefits, such as free or [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The odds that Congress will pass any major legislation this year to change rules affecting donors and nonprofit groups are growing slimmer. Two key lawmakers are squabbling [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The IRS has announced that it will revoke the tax exemptions of 41 nonprofit organizations that counsel people who have amassed big credit-card debts. Together the organizations [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Seven Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Susan M. Collins of Maine and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, in recent years forwarded complaints to the Internal Revenue Service about the [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Groups that give down-payment assistance to home buyers do not qualify for tax-exempt status if the down payments are provided by the sellers of the homes, the [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn As members of the House and Senate worked out a compromise tax measure last week, they dropped nearly every provision that charities and lawmakers had sought to [...]

Byline: JEFFREY SELINGO and ELIZABETH SCHWINN A presidential panel proposed a vast overhaul of the federal tax system last week that includes recommendations to eliminate the Clinton-era Hope and Lifetime [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, plans to introduce new rules aimed at curbing tax abuses involving charities -- as well as several [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Atop official of the Internal Revenue Service says that the agency will take a hard look at charities over the next year to try to catch any [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn An advisory committee to the Bush administration has recommended that the government make big revisions to the way the federal tax code treats charitable donations. The President's [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service has released a draft version of a revised Form 990 informational tax return for nonprofit organizations and has asked charities to comment on [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Members of Congress have introduced legislation that would offer new tax breaks to spur charitable giving. One key provision of the House and Senate bills would allow [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Washington -- Congress last week passed several tax breaks designed to encourage donors to give to hurricane-relief efforts. But many nonprofit leaders were frustrated that the measure [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Two influential members of Congress are raising questions about the legal requirements nonprofit hospitals should meet in order to qualify for tax-exempt status. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn * As of April 17, more than 800 tax-exempt organizations had filed tax forms over the Internet this year, according to the Internal Revenue Service. * The [...]

Byline: Harvy Lipman and Elizabeth Schwinn Washington -- One of the most powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week opened a wide-ranging inquiry into nonprofit organizations, raising fundamental questions about [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would prevent the taxation of federal money channeled by charities and others to victims of disasters. The Senate has [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn The Internal Revenue Service is reassuring private foundations that grants they make to charitable organizations that lobby are permissible under the federal tax code. The tax agency [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn New Jersey loses nearly $90-billion a year in potential revenue because nonprofit organizations and governments there are not required to pay property taxes, according to a new [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Organizations seeking charity status will be required to provide additional information on a revised application form released by the Internal Revenue Service. They will be required to [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn An estate cannot take a charitable deduction for making a gift that was first made to the deceased person's sister, who is a nun, and then to [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn Washington -- President Bush last week signed into law a bill that will tighten rules for donations of cars, trucks, and other vehicles, as well as gifts [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Schwinn New statistics released by the Internal Revenue Service show that deductions claimed for charitable contributions declined in 2002, falling from $139.2-billion in 2001 to $136.3-billion in 2002, [...]