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