The IRS Trying to Promote Awareness of Cybercrime and Fraudulent Charities Again:

On October 17, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced it will join international efforts to fight fraud. This announcement came because of the beginning of Charity Fraud Awareness Week, which lasts from October 17 to October 21.   In the announcement, the IRS stated that according to estimates charitable organizations lose five percent of their […]
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What Is Tax Insurance And How Can It Help You?

Tax insurance has been on the rise recently. It’s a unique solution for companies to protect themselves from unexpected tax payments. Due to the uncertainty of how the Inflation Reduction Act will affect tax filings in the coming years, tax insurance policies are appearing much more appealing.  Tax insurance offers companies many benefits. It allows […]
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A Federal Judge Ruled that Religious Employers Don’t Need to Cover HIV Drugs:

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor from Texas recently held that religious organizations need not cover HIV prevention drugs. In the class-action lawsuit, a group of Christian conservatives challenged the validity of the Affordable Care Act requirement to cover HIV prevention drugs. The group of Christian conservatives stated that providing HIV prevention medication violated their religious […]
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The IRS Is Facing Growing Pressure to Go After Organizations’ Church Status:

In a letter from August 1, 28 lawmakers asked the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to investigate the Family Research Council (“FRC”). The FRC is an organization of churches that lawmakers claim is a political advocacy group.   According to the lawmakers, the FRC does not hold religious services or have a congregation. They claim it […]
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Churches Affected by Covid-19 May be Eligible for Federal Relief Programs

By now, it is common knowledge that an unprecedented amount of businesses across the entire globe have been affected in some fashion by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic turbulence caused by the pandemic did not discriminate as it ravaged everything from small mom and pop businesses to some of the most established mega-corporations in the […]
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Church’s Acquired Property Qualified by the IRS for the Neighborhood Land Use Exemption

The IRS ruled in favor of a Section (b)(1)(a)(i) church to classify their recently acquired land under the Neighborhood Land Use Exemption as provided in Section 514(b)(3) of the Code. The church originally acquired three plots of adjacent residential land (with the use of a 20 year mortgage) with the intentions of demolishing the existing […]
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