On May 16, the IRS released a special issue of its Exempt Organization Newsletter:

Thursday, May 22 – 11 a.m. Eastern Time

Topics include:

• To file or not to file an application for recognition of exemption
• Form 1024: Applying for exemption
• Annual filing requirements for exempt organizations
• Permitted 501(c)(6) purposes and activities

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With research and drafting assistance provided by our extern from Washington University School of Law, Rachael Lynch.

Now that we’ve scared you with the potentially high taxes for self-dealing in private foundations, what is self dealing?

Self dealing includes any of the following transactions:

1. sale or exchange, or leasing, of property between a private foundation and a disqualified person (click here for a definition of a disqualified person); 2. lending of money or other extension of credit between a private foundation and a disqualified person; 3. furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between a private foundation and a disqualified person; 4. payment of compensation by a foundation to a disqualified person; 5. transfer of income or assets of a private foundation to a disqualified person; and 6. agreement by a private foundation to make any payment to a government official (other than an agreement to hire the official

On May 9, the IRS released its Exempt Organization Newsletter, Issue Number 2014-9. Topics include the following: