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IRS Says Fixing Up Your Own House Is Not Charity

IRS Says Fixing Up Your Own House Is Not Charity

For better or worse, 501(c) status has significance beyond federal income tax.It can be relevant for property tax and sales tax exemptions and be a requirement for an organization to be able to serve liquor or run gambling operations in some jurisdictions.  And then there is the, in my view, extra dose of credibility that 501(c) organizations have along with the ability to access certain types of grants.

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IRS Coinbase Summons What Are You Going To Do When They Come For You ?

IRS Coinbase Summons What Are You Going To Do When They Come For You ?

You will often see the blockchain referred to as a ledger.  As I read the descriptions, though, I think that it is actually more of a journal.  Back in the day we would have various journals that item by item recorded things like purchases, sales, receipts and disbursements.  The totals from the journals would be “posted” to the ledger.  At year end, the income accounts would be closed.   To analyze an account was to show the exact transactions that went into that account.  A critical component of the process was to cut things off.  Beginning in the eighties, we entered a kind of brave new world thanks to databases.  Some of the systems designed to use them were focused on issues like inventory management with the accounting functions thrown in.  It sometimes seemed that it was like never being able to step into the same river twice.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.