It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday!
The IRS has become more aggressive during this election year about enforcing the prohibition against politicking by tax exempt organizations. To date, the IRS has made inquiries into charitable organizations who have supported or opposed candidates including Obama, Romney and Huckabee.
Is this good policy – or is the IRS too harsh? Today’s Fix the Tax Code Friday question is:
Should charitable organizations (and thus, tax exempt) be prohibited from politicking? Should some measure of involvement in political campaigns be allowed?
Yes, there should be an absolute prohibition on politicking by nonprofits. If anything, the IRS should be more vigilent in enforcing against the abuses that occur, especially in churches.
Requiring churches to file 990s would be a great 1st step in improving nonprofit transparency & compliance.
I am a big advocate of charitable contributions and feel that the have as much right to politick as anyone; they need it more than others. Besides I can’t imagins why any Democrat would be against this !
If you (tax free charitable organizations, including churches) are not required to pay taxes, you don’t have a say in who, what, when, where, or why and how the government is run. KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSED or face the consequences of loosing your status of tax free and face paying taxes on your income which includes donations. Only then can you have a say.
If you, the leaders of any of the tax free origination, want to have a say, step out from behind your desk, pulpit, etc., get enough signatures to run for that office and have your say. You can use your name, but not the organization or your position with-in to attempt to sway the tax paying public to follow your belief’s. To link your name to the tax free status of your organization would be a violation of the very laws that provide your organization with a tax free status.