The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations. Bruce R. Hopkins

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p. 218. Insert as second complete paragraph:

       p. 218. Insert as third complete paragraph, before heading:

       p. 218. Insert following first complete paragraph, before heading:

      From the standpoint of the law of tax‐exempt organizations, here is the operative sentence: “In particular, the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law, that the Department of the Treasury does not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization on the basis that such individual or organization speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has, consistent with law, not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for public office by the Department of the Treasury.”

      For these purposes, the term adverse action means the “imposition of any tax or tax penalty; the delay or denial of [recognition of] tax‐exempt status; the disallowance of tax deductions for contribution made to entities exempted from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of title 26, United States Code; or any other action that makes unavailable or denies any tax deduction, exemption, credit, or benefit.”

       p. 218, note 188. Insert following existing text:

      Citing this IRC provision, the IRS ruled that a business corporation maintaining a political action committee may not deduct as a business expense charitable contributions made to match its employees’ charitable gifts, inasmuch as its charitable gifts are intended to incentivize political contributions by its employees to the PAC; the agency stated that the corporation's gifts to its PAC and its matching charitable gifts are “inextricably linked,” so that the latter types of gifts are being made in connection with political campaigns (Priv. Ltr. Rul. 201616002).

       p. 222, note 210. Insert following existing text:

      A court ruled that this revenue procedure is not unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad in violation of the First Amendment or void for vagueness in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment (Freedom Path, Inc. v. IRS, 2017 BL 234957 (N.D. Tex. 2017)).

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      1 26.1 Priv. Ltr. Rul. 201505042.

      2 26.2 Priv. Ltr. Rul. 201932017.

      3 30.1 Parks v. Commissioner, 145 T.C. 278, 309 (2015), aff'd, 717 Fed. Appx. 712 (9th Cir. 2017).

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