Protecting Your Organization's Tax-Exempt Status: A Guide for Nonprofit Managers - Hardcover

by Mark Bookman (Author)

The most comprehensive and ambitious effort I've seen to compileand discuss, in one resource, all of the issues and informationabout this crucial topic. Nonprofit executives, managers, legalcounsel, and trustees all can benefit from this useful andinformative book.
?J. David Seay, vice president, secretary, and counsel, UnitedHospital Fund

Bookman provides nonprofit leaders with a comprehensive examinationof federal, state, and local laws affecting nonprofit organizationsand recommAnds actions nonprofits can take to protect theirorganizations tax-exempt status.

Using case studies extensively, he explains such crucial matters aspreparing for an IRS audit, reporting unrelated business income, responding to claims of unfair competition, and fighting challengesto nonprofits' property tax exemption.

Protecting Your Organization's Tax Exempt Status demonstrates howfederal tax law applies to specific segments of the nonprofitsector. Discusses actual IRS audits of nonprofits, shows hownonprofits can develop positive community relations, and reviewscongressional hearings on federal tax exemptions for nonprofits.

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Mark Bookman provides nonprofit leaders with a comprehensive examination of federal, state, and local laws affecting nonprofit organizations, and recommends actions they can take to protect their organization's tax-exempt status. Using case studies extensively, the author explains such crucial matters as preparing for an IRS audit, reporting unrelated business income, responding to claims of unfair competition, and fighting challenges to nonprofits' property tax exemptions. Protecting Your Organization's Tax-Exempt Status demonstrates how federal tax law applies to specific segments of the nonprofit sector, discusses actual IRS audits of nonprofits, provides examples of how nonprofits have made their case for property tax exemption, shows how nonprofits can develop positive community relations, and reviews congressional hearings on federal tax exemptions for nonprofits.

Author Biography

Mark Bookman is the author of Protecting Your Organization's Tax-Exempt Status: A Guide for Nonprofit Managers, published by Wiley.