275,000 Non-Profits Lose Their Tax Exempt Status
275,000 non-profit organizations tax-exempt statuses have been revoked!! Dreamcatchers would like to assure the public that we are in excellent standing with the IRS. The IRS has published the first Automatic Revocation of Exemption List. It lists approximately 275,000 nonprofits whose tax-exempt status has been revoked because they failed to file a Form 990, 990-N, 990-EZ, or 990-PF for three consecutive years.
What does publication of the list mean to you?
If your organization appears on the list, you must now must file a federal income tax return and pay federal income taxes. If you previously could accept tax-deductible contributions, you no longer can do so.
If your organization is not on the list, technically you don’t have to do anything. This a good time, however, to reach out to your donors, funders, and other constituents and assure them that you are in good standing with the IRS. You may also wish to suggest that your supporters consult the list to ensure that the other nonprofits they give to are still exempt.
We have already incorporated the revocation data into our database and products, and we will automatically update them when the IRS adds new organizations to the list each month.
We have also noted other information about IRS status for every nonprofit in our database. These messages appear on the nonprofit profile pages.
We would like to suggest that our supporters please consult this list to ensure that we, along with other nonprofits you may donate to, are 100% exempt. Check by state & Employer Identification Number (EIN). Ours is 35-2331592
CLICK THE LINK HERE:
http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=240099,00.html?hq_e=el&hq_m=1144584&hq_l=4&hq_v=578ff3a165
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
If you cannot find a non-profit organization on the IRS or GUIDESTAR website, they are *NOT* a legitimate, official non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Here is our IRS/Guidestar profile. The best way to SEARCH on the IRS website is by the organization’s EIN number. If they do not have an EIN number, or are not listed on the IRS or Guidestar website, they are NOT legitimate!!!
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Sandy Deja Says:
The IRS is offering transitional relief for small revoked groups. It’s one of the best deals I’ve seen in my four decades of professional involvement with non-profit taxes. If you can honestly say there is still a need for your non-profit, and you feel you can muster the human and other resources needed to sustain it, don’t pass up this opportunity to regain your tax exempt status.
There are no shortcuts. You will have to fill out a new exemption application and pay an IRS User Fee. But for organizations with annual gross receipts normally less than $50,000, the User Fee will be reduced to only $100 and reinstatement will be retroactive. The offer is only good through December 31, 2012. You can find the details in IRS Notice 2011-43.
[http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-11-43.pdf]
Posted on June 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 pm