Professor Roger Colinvaux of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law (Catholic Law) was quoted by Law360 in an October 6 article on Congress’s potential changes to or abandonment of certain tax form applications.

Law360
Date: October 6, 2023
By: David van den Berg
Scrutiny Of Nonprofits Prompts Push To Ax Short Application

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With the House tax committee probing the legitimacy of nonprofits, groups representing the sector are pushing to get rid of the streamlined application for charitable tax-exempt status, saying the form needs to be eliminated to safeguard nonprofits' credibility.

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Scrapping Form 1023-EZ is appropriate, Roger Colinvaux of the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law told Law360. “It should not be ‘easy’ to qualify as a tax-exempt charity,” Colinvaux said. “The less substantive the [exemption] application, the more we can expect ineffective organizations with questionable goals getting subsidized by taxpayer dollars.”

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