Nonprofit Management
A Nonprofit Option for this County-Owned Nursing Home?
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An Illinois county is finding out it’s easier to decide to get rid of its nursing home than it is to actually get it done.
Taxes
UK Women’s Groups Challenge Grant to Anti-Abortion Nonprofit from “Tampon Tax” Proceeds
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While the UK has declined to stop taxing feminine hygiene products, it did promise to pass some of the tax proceeds along to women’s groups. But its first round of grants includes a big one to an anti-abortion organization.
tax breaks
Alaskan Town’s Sales Tax for Some Nonprofits Brings Confusion
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January 29, 2017; Peninsula Clarion (Kenai, AK)
What’s fair in the taxation of nonprofits by local municipalities? NPQ has covered the issue of payments in lieu of taxes issue extensively; it mostly affects universities and hospitals—the eds and the meds. But there’s another realm of charges—fees and taxes—that hits smaller and larger operations alike. For more background on this, read “Death by a Thousand City Fees.”
Recently in Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed a set of tax reforms that included several new sources of revenue. One of them removed the exemption from collecting sales tax by nonprofits operating regular storefronts, like the Salvation Army.
Congressional Republicans
GOP-only Tax Reform Plans May Be Enacted in 2018
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House Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows says he expects tax reform to be included in the fiscal 2018 budget process: “I think it will be done in reconciliation, if it will be done.”
international affairs
Trying to Make Sense of the Trump Administration: Who Broke Up with Whom and Other Stories
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January 26, 2017; BBC News
Over the past few days, we’ve all watched a number of situations where accounts of what’s occurring inside the Beltway conflict. The resignation of four highly placed state department officials reported yesterday has been characterized by major media sources as 1) a firing, 2) a resignation in advance of Tillerson’s assuming the lead and in protest of the tone being set, or 3) just normal turnover. So the fact that for a while it was somewhat unclear who cancelled the meeting next week between Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is no surprise. It seems that the media is, as with some other issues, trying valiantly to get a straight story out of the administration as one set of assertions quickly supplants another. In the case of Mexico, it’s something of a who-broke-up-with-whom scenario, but with about $600 billion a year’s worth of stakes.
Brookings Institution
Auto Research Group: NAFTA Withdrawal Would Hurt—Not Help—American Manufacturing
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An automotive research group says withdrawal from NAFTA could cost over 30,000 jobs. The researchers advocate smaller trade adjustments and increased job training.
Nonprofit News
New Call for UN to End Tax Havens as Scaffolding for Poverty
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Advocates believe that closing international tax havens would free massive resources for governments and NGOs to address social needs.
fixing the tax code
Shifting the Burdens of the Unrelated Business Income Tax: A Proposal to Nonprofits
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Paying UBIT may provide the nonprofit sector with an economic and moral leadership opportunity to advocate for changes in the tax code. As a sector whose tax exemption is premised on creating public good, nonprofits could serve as a control group for changes in the tax code.
nonprofit regulations
Cayman Islands Take Steps to Protect Nonprofit Sector from Bad Actors
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Worried about failing an independent review of its financial regulations fighting terrorism and money laundering, the Cayman Islands enact modest reporting requirements on nonprofit organizations.
corporate social policy
Townies Face Off against Big Tech on Taxation in San Francisco
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Million-dollar homes and homelessness are both common in San Francisco. Leaders and advocates look for ways to balance attracting and keeping Bay Area tech giants with the need to serve the poor and homeless.