Charitable Incentives and Safeguards in the Pension Protection Act

IRS Oversight of Exempt Organizations

Congressional Oversight

110th Congress

• IS President Submits Statement on Economic Stimulus to Senate Finance Committee...1/24/08
• House Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on Veterans' Charities--Part II ...1/17/08
• IS supports student loan forgiveness for public service in the nonprofit sector...11/29/07
• Senate Finance Committee Roundtable on Hospital Community Benefit Standard...10/30/07
• Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Hedge Funds and Endowments...9/26/07
• House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on 501(c)(3) organizations...7/11/07
• IS President Testifies at Senate Hearing on Smithsonian Governance....6/26/07
• IS Applauds Senate Finance and IRS for Efforts to Eliminate Sham Transactions....6/21/07
• New Members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees...12/21/06
• IS Sends Welcome Letter to the 110th Congress...11/9/06

109th Congress

• Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Higher Education and Tax Exemption...12/6/06
• Senator Grassley Calls For Discussion Paper on Nonprofit Hospitals....9/15/06
• House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on Charities and Employment Tax Compliance....5/25/06
• Governance Roundtable Hosted by Senate Finance Committee Staff....3/7/06
• Older American's Charitable Contributions Threatened....1/17/06
• Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on Charities' Response to Hurricane Katrina...12/13/05
• Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Rebuilding After Hurricane Katrina...9/28/05
• Fact Sheet on Charitable Reform and the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector...8/3/05
• House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on Façade Easements...6/24/05
• Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Land Conservation...6/8/05
• House Ways and Means Hearing on Nonprofit Hospitals...6/1/05
• Charity Owned Life Insurance Bill Introduced...5/25/05
• House Ways and Means Hearing on the Tax-Exempt Sector....4/21/05
• Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Nonprofit Sector...4/06/05
• Joint Tax Committee Report Suggests Reforms for Nonprofits...1/31/05

108th Congress

• IS Convenes National Panel on the Nonprofit Sector...10/12/04
• Senate Finance Committee Hearing and Roundtable...7/22/04
• House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Hearing...6/25/04
• Joint Tax Committee Description of Law Relating to Charitable and Other Exempt Organizations (PDF)...6/22/04

Compensation Issues and Intermediate Sanctions

Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Issues

• New Rules Finalized for Combined Federal Campaign...11/30/06
• JWOD Proposed Governance Standards...12/21/05
• Learning from Sarbanes-Oxley: A Checklist for Nonprofits and Foundations...5/11/04
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Implications for Nonprofit Organizations (PDF)...10/09/03

Charitable Solicitation and Communication Regulations

• FTC Issues final spam rule...5/28/08
• FCC Issues Final "Do Not Fax" Rule...5/11/06
• FTC "Do Not Call" Registry...8/26/05
• IS statement on U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Madigan case...5/5/03
• Madigan v. Telemarketing Associates: The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could threaten nonprofit organizations' First Amendment rights....3/3/03

Postal Regulations

• House Oversight and Government Reform is revisiting the Cooperative Mail Rule...3/26/08
• USPS adopts new rule for Standard Mail containing personal information...11/01/04
• Cooperative mail rule adopted by the U.S. Postal Service...10/14/03
• IS comments on cooperative mail rule...6/6/03

CFC Anti-terrorism Certification

International Issues

• Treasury Voluntary Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines
• Handbook on Counter-Terrorism Measures: What U.S. Nonprofits and Grantmakers Need to Know (PDF)
• IS comments on regulation of international charitable activities...7/18/03
• Suspension of tax-exempt status of designated terrorist organizations...11/13/03

Electronic Filing

• Current IRS e-filing rules -- more organizations required to file electronically....4/30/07
• IRS Announces Mandatory E-Filing for Certain Tax-Exempt Organizations...3/3/05
• IS Comments on E-Filing for Tax-Exempt Organizations...2/28/05
• Electronic Data Initiative for Nonprofits (EDIN) letter to the IRS (PDF) urging Electronic filing of Forms 990...4/19/02

Disclosure

• Independent Sector comments on disclosure provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, submitted to the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee...3/25/03
• Corporate Accountability and Nonprofit Disclosure
  IS letters to Rep. Oxley (R-OH), Rep. LaFalce (D-NY), and Senator Sarbanes (D-MD) regarding corporate philanthropic disclosure
• IS statement on disclosure of political activities of tax-exempt groups to the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee....6/20/00
• Independent Sector responds to the Joint Committee on Taxation report calling for increased public disclosure by nonprofit organizations

Other

• Analysis of the impact on nonprofit organizations of H.R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, prepared by Caplin and Drysdale...11/1/01

Further resources and information on IS activities regarding accountability

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