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Errors on IRS Contractor Web Site Continue as Filing Deadline Approaches

14 May 2012

Tweet As I reminded you over the weekend, the deadline for filing federal information returns (the 990 series) for most charitable organizations is tomorrow, May 15. So this morning, bright and early, I headed over the site and got this message: And again. And again. The system is down… Of course it is. The site [...]

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Tax-Exempt Organization Deadline Nears

12 May 2012

Tweet For years, most small tax-exempt organizations were exempt from filing requirements with IRS. This all changed a few years back when The Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it mandatory for tax-exempt organizations to file an annual information return or notice with the IRS regardless of how much (or little) income the organization receives. [...]

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Nonprofit Tax Reporting Gets Easier

18 January 2011

Tweet The IRS has announced a change in the reporting requirements for small tax-exemption organizations. Beginning in 2007 (for tax year 2006), organizations with gross receipts of less than $25,000 were required to file a form 990-N (sometimes called an “e-Postcard”) with the IRS each year. Beginning in 2011 (meaning the 2010 tax year), the [...]

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Fix The Tax Code Friday: Charitable Org Reporting

8 October 2010

Tweet The IRS has been ramping up its campaign advising that charitable organizations of all sizes are now required to file annual information returns. The annual gross receipts of the charitable organization determines the kind of return to be filed. This has become a confusing issue for many smaller charities which have inconsistent receipts – [...]

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Deadline Draws Near for Small Charities

5 October 2010

Tweet Charitable organizations with annual gross receipts of $25,000 or less have just a few more days to get compliant under an important deadline extension from IRS. In July 2010, the IRS issued the following statement: (If you prefer to skip the video, you can read the statement online here.) So really, what all of [...]

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Smaller Charities Get Important Extension

27 July 2010

Tweet Smaller charities, meaning those that have annual gross receipts of less than $25,000, may be at risk this year of losing their tax-exempt status. Under a 2006 law, those charities were required to file a form 990-N (sometimes called an e-postcard) with IRS each year. Failing to file for three years in a row [...]

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IRS Encourages Tax Exempts to File

19 May 2010

Tweet IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has issued the following statement about charities who have not yet filed their forms 990-N: Now that the May 17 filing deadline has passed, it appears that many small tax-exempt organizations have not filed the required information return in time. These organizations are vital to communities across the United States, [...]

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The Saga of the 990-N

18 May 2010

Tweet I’m sure that the IRS expected their charitable organizations section of the web site to be popular on yesterday but probably not as popular as it was. With an important deadline looming, charitable organizations found wait times to be excruciatingly slow and subject to time outs as they attempted to file the form 990-N [...]

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Tax Exempt Organizations Face Crucial Deadline

14 May 2010

Tweet Years ago, small tax exempt organizations had it easy. So long as they raised less than $25,000 in a calendar year, they general didn’t have to file an informational return with IRS. Easy. That all changed in 2006. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it mandatory for most tax-exempt organizations to file an [...]

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