August 7, 2018

Taking Aim at New Nonprofit Parking Tax: Can This Please Be Undone?!

Does your church or other nonprofit provide parking at its facility to employees, at no cost? As a result of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, employer-provided parking fringe benefits are now – oddly enough – taxable to employers. In a strange twist for nonprofit employers, that means that they will now owe “unrelated business income tax” on the economic value of such parking benefit with the corresponding legal obligation to file IRS Form 990-T returns.

Nonprofit Corporate Law
July 26, 2018

State Sales Tax Liability in Wayfair’s Wake

Are nonprofits that sell goods liable for state sales tax, like for-profit businesses? And does the answer change if sales are made via the Internet? Nonprofits may indeed owe state sales tax for their sales, depending on their specific activities and extent of available state nonprofit exemptions. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. decision, such liability may include online sales – for both businesses and nonprofits. This is huge news for giant retailers like Wayfair and Amazon, but what does it mean for nonprofit sellers?

Fundraising/Tax Exemption
July 25, 2018

Schedule B Roll-Back: Newsworthy, But Not So Much for 501(c)(3)’s

The IRS’s announcement on July 17, 2018 that it will no longer require Form 990 Schedule B donor disclosures sent shock waves through the tax-exempt sector. While such action reflects notable government restraint and certainly affects many tax-exempt organizations, there is no change for Section 501(c)(3) organizations that file Form 990s or for Section 527 “political action committee” (PAC) reporting. So why the change, and what are its implications?

Nonprofit Corporate Law/Tax Exemption

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