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Court Rejects Illinois Unemployment Tax on Religious Ministry

July 19, 2018

An Illinois court ruled recently that the state can’t tax a religious ministry to underprivileged children. The Illinois Department of Employment Security had attempted to assess unemployment compensation taxes to By the Hand Club For Kids, a ministry of The Moody Church, reversing the Department’s previous determinations that By the Hand was nontaxable since its creation in 2001.

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Court thwarts Illinois agency’s attempt to tax religious ministry to underprivileged children

07/19/2018

Alliance for Defending Freedom  An Illinois court ruled Wednesday that the state can’t tax a religious ministry to underprivileged children.

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University Foundations Have Some Lessons to Learn

07/18/2018

Nonprofit Quarterly  University support foundations exist to fund school activities, student scholarships, and faculty programs. Like most nonprofits, they raise money from alumni, other foundations, corporations, and independent donors.

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Why Oversight Matters: A Tale of Two Nonprofit State Regulatory Systems

07/06/2018

Non Profit Quarterly New Hampshire currently has eight staff assigned to nonprofits, while Vermont has one—whose office has only “specific and limited” oversight responsibilities

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'Nonprofit in Name Only:' Grand Canyon University's Conversion Criticized

07/06/2018

Phoenix New Times Two years ago, Grand Canyon University President Brian Mueller was fuming. The for-profit university had been blocked by its accreditor after an attempt to convert to a nonprofit institution. 

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Americans for Prosperity’s Nonprofit Status Challenged in New Hampshire

07/03/2018

Nonprofit Quarterly The nonprofit conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has been challenged in New Hampshire by a group of Republican lawmakers who say that the organization is in violation of rules for nonprofits operating in the state.

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Nonprofits Divided On Future Of SCOTUS

06/29/2018

The Nonprofit Times  Nonprofit advocacy leaders are gearing up for a fight in the wake of the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy and thus the potential for a second appointment

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The Supreme Court Hands a Win to the Pro-Life Movement

06/28/2018

The Atlantic The Supreme Court handed a big win to the pro-life movement on Tuesday. In a 5–4 decision in NIFLA v.

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Religious leaders push back on Republicans for new GOP tax law

06/28/2018

The Hill  Religious leaders are slamming the GOP's tax-code rewrite for its requirement that churches, synagogues and other nonprofit organizations start paying a tax on some of the fringe b

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Republican tax law hits churches

06/26/2018

Politico  Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dol

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Life after Wayfair

06/26/2018

Politico  Making Heads and Tails, Post Wayfair: State officials around the country are beginning to explore a range of possibilities for taxing online sales - which is not surprising, consid

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Court thwarts Illinois agency’s attempt to tax religious ministry to underprivileged children

07/19/2018

Alliance for Defending Freedom  An Illinois court ruled Wednesday that the state can’t tax a religious ministry to underprivileged children.

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University Foundations Have Some Lessons to Learn

07/18/2018

Nonprofit Quarterly  University support foundations exist to fund school activities, student scholarships, and faculty programs. Like most nonprofits, they raise money from alumni, other foundations, corporations, and independent donors.

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