Elaine's Tax Tips for Nonprofits

Compensation Planning Building the Basic Foundation - Part 2 Building off the first four blocks of compensation planning discussed i...

Compensation Planning Building the Basic Foundation - Part 1 Virtually all organizations face a lot of moving parts and pieces in...

Unrelated Business Income - More Than Income These Days The tax-exempt community has long been immune from many of the tax provisions m...

Limited Relief Offered for Employer Reimbursement of Individual Health Insurance Premiums Finding a way onto the very end of the 21st Cen...

Designating Housing Allowances - A "Must Do" Step for the Church Ministers performing qualifying ministerial services may have a...

My apologies for the break in this series.  As we approached the April 17th filing deadline, I found that blogging rated way down on the lis...

Step 3 - Identify All Benefits Yes, it may sound simple, but it seems that many organizations don't really walk through this step. Befor...

Compensation planning is obviously a multiple step process even though nonprofit organizations have a tendency to either combine some of the...

As we continue our journey of taking an in-depth look at compensation, we will look this week at Step 2 - Defining the Umbrella. One of my m...

Reason for the Series One of the most common areas that I speak on across the country is regarding the area of compensation. As a general ru...

In a recent private letter ruling, the IRS issued a final adverse determination letter to an organization due to the extensive nature of per...

Ministers are allowed to opt out of Self Employment tax by filing Form 4361 with the IRS. There is a slim window of time during which a mini...

Recently a minister was sentenced to 21 months in jail for failing to report all of the income received from his church. In reporting his ta...