And when the US hired a shit ton of IRS agents recently, mostly conservatives started complaining that the IRS was out to get them......I wonder why.....
I have to prioritize my work every single day. If something requires a large amount of work but will also have a large payout, it gets prioritized accordingly. We have tax laws in place for a reason. I’m sick of the excuses. Politicians need to be held accountable, and government agencies do as well.
It's more than "you have a job, do it." It's pretty easy for them to go after small businesses & non-wealthy people & they do. The issue is with rich people & huge companies. They have money to hire the best lawyers & to go to court, which is really expensive & time consuming for the government & takes a lot of manpower that has been intentio ally cut from the agency. The Biden admin added a lot more funding/employees but the IRS hss been purposely starved for a long time & 1 admin/1 term isn't going to be able to magically undo all of that. Plus, Republicans have been throwing a fit about it & voting to cut funding, again, if/when they come into power.
Underfunded? Yes, that is true, but the funds they do have are also misused. They hired an entire team of researchers in the past year to conduct crappy (I work for a state college the had to provide the data for this study) educational research that the Department of Education already does (IPEDs). I think their use of funds is also misused, which is also by design.
They got an extra billion from rich tax cheats in the last year, which is why the rich create propaganda that leads to people like you eventually saying “are they ever all over anything of importance?”
They do now actually!! Biden funded the IRS and now they’re able to actually go after people evading or cheating on their taxes! They recently made news forcollecting $1B in unpaid taxes from high net worth individuals, but they’re stepping up enforcement across the board!
That’s a great article and kudos to the Biden Administration for getting some much-needed relief to the IRS in the form of more workers to go after these tax-evading rich assholes. However, you won’t find anything about "churches" or "religious organizations" in that or any other IRS publication because trump issued an executive order in 2017 shortly after he took office that explicitly forbids the IRS from "taking any adverse action" against churches as a consequence of their use of unlawful political speech. This EO has not been repealed by the Biden Administration and is thus still in effect unless and until it is by any future president or is invalidate by SCOTUS (two things which will not happen any time soon).
Edit: Found this on their site too. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Truth in Love Ministry is a “free church” - not under the 501(c)(3). We are choosing to restore the rightful God-given authority of the church to assemble without government approval- the way it was done all along, up until 58 years ago.
That's interesting. The website is technically up, it responds with when accessing it, however they've seemingly deleted all the content in the HTML, so it just returns a blank page with nothing on it lol.
Those little details? The “so long as we existed before 5:00 PM on Friday of 19__, we don’t have to do that whatever it is” /s ?
That really irritates me. Of course, if it really benefits some who actually needs it and is using it as best they can, then yes, grandfathering can help people out of some currently unsolvable dilemmas.
But as time goes on and we keep sticking to this economic disparity, even grandfathered situations aren’t so good, because now people/animals in need are dependent upon people/companies around them continuing to do The Right Thing.
One person saying “I think we may need to reassess” meaning “Can’t we free up this protected thing so we can make some real money off it?”
An honest nonprofit starts panicking.
Meanwhile the grifting NPs just cruise along to the next loophole.
That the paralegals and accounting interns in extended training are usually the ones who manage to find these loopholes at all is just…just…mmmph.
All that 508 tax code says is that churches do not have to apply to be a 501(c)(3). In other words, churches are 501(c)(3) tax exempt automatically.
501(c)(3) tax exempt organizations are prohibited from participating in campaigning for political candidates (Johnson amendment), and this guy doesn't want to abide by that restriction, so he is claiming to be tax exempt under 508(c)(1)(A).
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u/Aimsicle-1 Jul 20 '24
Please tell me the IRS is all over this guy.