Planning Guide for The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations : Strategies and Commentaries [Hardcover]

Bruce R. Hopkins (Author)

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Publication Date: July 26, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0471471224 | ISBN-13: 978-0471471226 | Edition: 1

Your source for hands-on legal and tax planning tips and guidance  

This indispensable companion to the best-selling The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eighth Edition offers professionals representing and advising tax-exempt organizations a wide variety of practical planning tips, guidance, and information that can help them better serve clients. Written by the leading legal authority in the nonprofit sector, this guide features a digest of recent legislation, court opinions, and IRS public and private rulings. It includes a helpful checklist of forms and an inventory of penalties. Additionally, it features commentaries designed to provide guidance and perspective to exempt professionals and organizations as to how to cope with the development in the law in their practices and the operation of their programs.

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An essential guide for professionals representing and advising tax-exempt organizations, Planning Guide for The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries offers a wide variety of practical planning tips, guidance, and helpful information for better meeting clients’ needs.

Written by the leading legal authority in the nonprofit sector, this indispensable companion to the bestselling The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eighth Edition (Wiley) features advice on forming and governing tax-exempt organizations, acquiring exempt status, obtaining public charity status, using subsidiaries and joint ventures, coping with the unrelated business rules, a summary of "difficult" court opinions, a legal audit checklist, and much more.

Planning Guide for The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries is a valuable, go-to resource for lawyers and accountants, directors and officers of nonprofit organizations, and managers and consultants to exempt organizations.

About the Author

Bruce R. Hopkins is the country's leading authority on tax-exempt organizations and is a senior partner with the firm Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC. He is also the author of nineteen books, including The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Ninth Edition, Nonprofit Law Made Easy, 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered, The Law of Fundraising, Third Edition, Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance, Second Edition, The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition, The Law of Intermediate Sanctions, and The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Second Edition, as well as the newsletter Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel, all published by Wiley.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471471224
• ISBN-13: 978-0471471226
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,459,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bruce R. Hopkins is a lawyer who divides his time between the writing of books and his monthly newsletter, and the practice of law.

He is a senior partner in the law firm of Polsinelli Shughart PC, practicing in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C., offices. He specializes in the representation of nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, governance and the law, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, the law of charitable giving (including planned giving), and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of John Wiley & Sons' Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. He is the author (or, in some instances, co-author) of 26 books that are currently on the market. His first book, The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, was first published in 1975. His most recent book, Fundraising Law Made Easy, was published in 2009. He writes a monthly newsletter, Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel. All of these publications are published by John Wiley & Sons.

He received the 2007 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Vanguard Lifetime Achievement Award) from the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Nonprofit Organizations. He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America," Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law, 2007-2010.

He participates in many conferences and seminars, including those sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Texas, PESI, AICPA, Salk Institute, and Loyola University (Los Angeles).

He maintains the Nonprofit Law Center, accessible at www.nonprofitlawcenter.com.

He earned his J.D. and LL.M. degrees at the George Washington University National Law Center, and his B.A. at the University of Michigan.

He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of Missouri.