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In-Person and Virtual Conference

Georgetown Law CLE , 40th Annual Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations - Session: "Legal and Tax Issues with On-line Giving Platforms"

April 27, 2023

Topics Include:

What charities need to know about on-line giving
State charitable regulation issues
Structures that work — and those that don’t

Co-Panelist: Karen Wu, Perlman & Perlman, LLP

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Robert A. Wexler

In-Person and Virtual Conference

Georgetown Law CLE, 40th Annual Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations - Session: “Ask the Experts”

April 27, 2023

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET

Co-Panelists: David Shevlin, Simpson Tacher, Elinor Ramey, Steptoe & Johnson

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Rosemary E. Fei

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Practitioner Perspectives on Using Section 501(c)(4) Organizations for Charitable Lobbying: Realities and an Alternative

This paper, originally published in the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, discusses a wide array of issues arising from the use of Section 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations to conduct the lobbying necessary to advance charitable goals. The paper goes on to propose an innovative legislative change that would allow the creation of a…

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Lobbying Overview for Private Foundations

Private foundations’ expenditures for legislative lobbying are prohibited as “taxable expenditures” by Section 4945 of the Internal Revenue Code. For the purpose of deciding what is prohibited lobbying, private foundations may rely on the definitions found in Sections 501(h) and 4911 of the Internal Revenue Code, which define lobbying for those public charities that have…