The IRS denied tax-exempt status to 57 religious or charitable groups in 2015, according to recent data from agency.
The IRS rejected a total of 67 applications for tax-exempt status in 2015, and religious groups comprised the majority of denials. There were 92,653 total applications by religious and charitable groups in 2015. Of those applications, 86,915 were approved, 57 were denied, and 5,681 were left in limbo.
Attorney Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, represents a number of conservative and pro-life non-profit organizations that have faced long battles to have their tax-exempt status approved by the IRS. Among his clients, two are still awaiting determination by the IRS—one group has been waiting for more than six years, and another for nearly six years.
“The process is supposed to be a fairly quick process,” says Sekulow. “If the IRS needs more information, they’re supposed to ask you for that.”
According to the IRS, the 5,681 applications that were not adjudicated in 2015 generally did not include required information, were incomplete, or were applications that were withdrawn by organizations.
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5 comments:
I'm sure none of George Soros so called non political entities were denied.
Other liberal organizations are quickly processed and approved.
If you add the unanswered requests to the denial, you end up with only 7% of applications not approved.
That's a relatively small number, and since no evidence was put forward that the denials or "waiting" have been unjustly denied or made to wait, I find this story to be lacking, and dismiss its premise.
I am eager and open to hearing specific evidence that anything was done maliciously or unjustly, and would kindly rally behind those claims, but for now, everything appears to be in good working order.
Actually, it's only 6% were unanswered or denied. Denials are only .0007%. When I look at the numbers that way, virtually no one gets denied.
If I was on Mythbusters, I'd call this articles premise as "myth busted".
Any Church that preaches anything about politics, abortion, social programs, or anything other than the Bible should lose it's tax free status. Church is supposed to be saving souls, not telling it's members how to vote, or what to support.
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