Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Revoking federal tax-exempt status

[Thomas Chapel (tjchapel]

Haha. Only Trump would think...yeah lets cut it...and on Earth Day.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 8:50 AM Sara Gottlieb <sara.gottlieb [at] gmail.com> 
wrote:

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> https://www.eenews.net/articles/white-house-says-its-not-targeting-green-groups-tax-status/
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> E&E NEWS PM | The White House is not drafting or considering an order
> targeting nonprofit organizations’ tax-exempt status, a White House
> official said Tuesday.
>
> The comments come after rumors swirled in energy and environmental policy
> groups in recent days that President Donald Trump might attempt to revoke
> green groups’ tax-exempt status, potentially on Earth Day.
>
> Asked Tuesday whether the president was considering any actions to target
> nonprofit organizations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told
> reporters she would check in with the White House policy team.
>
> In response to a request for additional comment, a White House official
> told POLITICO’s E&E News later Tuesday in an email, “No such orders are
> being drafted or considered at this time.”
>
> Environmentalists’ concerns were amplified when Trump suggested last week
> that Harvard University should lose its tax-exempt status after the school
> defied the administration’s demands.
>
> Donations to major environmental groups that have 501(c)(3) status are
> considered charitable and tax-deductible, and losing that status could hurt
> green groups’ fundraising efforts.
>
> The president does not have the legal authority to request tax
> investigations into particular people or entities. A broad presidential
> directive to target nonprofits’ tax-exempt status could also encompass
> conservative organizations.
>
>
> > Today's Topics:
> >
> >    1. Revoking federal tax-exempt status (Was Re: Cohousing in DC
> >       paper The Hill today) (Liz Ryan Cole)
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:45:48 -0400
> > From: Liz Ryan Cole <lizryancole [at] me.com>
> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org, seaheidi [at] earthlink.net
> > Subject: [C-L]_ Revoking federal tax-exempt status (Was Re: Cohousing
> >         in DC paper The Hill today)
> > Message-ID: <63C99130-424F-41D6-83C6-4EA67F6ECB82 [at] me.com>
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> > There is a lot of fear out there. Fight fear with facts. (Maybe also
> > listen to All Shall Be Well Again Gordon Bok, Ann May Muir, and Ed
> > Trickett)  :)
> >
> > This is from The Non-Profit Times.
> > Neither the president, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S.
> Department
> > of the Treasury, or the IRS have the ability to revoke the federal
> > tax-exempt status of any entity through Executive Order or with the mere
> > stroke of a pen. There are well-established procedures for revoking
> federal
> > tax exemption.
> >
> > Those procedures require individual case-by-case IRS audits of each
> > organization, with ample opportunity for the entity to defend itself, and
> > including multiple routes of appeal.
> >
> >
> >
> https://thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles/under-fire-how-the-irs-can-and-cant-revoke-exempt-status/
> >
> >
> > liz
> > Loch Lyme Lodge, Inc.
> > Future home of Pinnacle Cohousing
> >
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