The Internal Revenue Service has withdrawn its proposed alternative report for charities to substantiate gifts of $250 or more that required disclosure of the donors’ social security numbers. (Reg. 138344-13, published in the Fed. Reg. 1/8/16.)
An appellate court in New York has affirmed a trial court’s decisions ordering a professional solicitor to pay $3 million in restitution for fraudulently solicited contributions and permanently enjoining the soliciting company and its president from ever operating a business in New York that solicits contributions from the public.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overruled the Commonwealth Court’s opinion in “Redacted v. Redacted” and allowed the state Attorney General to proceed against several charities and their officers using information allegedly disclosed by the charity’s attorney in violation of her obligation to preserve confidentiality. The Supreme Court has said that evidence should be admitted in the case “based on established evidentiary principles and not the broader Code of Professional Conduct.”
A nonprofit hospital employee who applied for disability benefits from Social Security, claiming total disability beginning the day after he was fired, has seen his discrimination claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act dismissed by a federal District Court in New York.
The MRI technologist’s assertion, without explanation, that he was qualified to perform the essential functions of his job on December 1, 2010, but was completely disabled the following day precluded his ability to claim that he was terminated for discriminatory reasons under the ADA, the Court said.
Princeton University has the burden of justifying its real estate tax-exempt status without relying on a presumption of correctness by the taxing authority, the Tax Court of New Jersey has held in the long-running challenge to its exemption.
