According to Mother Jones, “Some of the first exploiters of the campaign finance free-for-all aren’t corporations, but labor unions.” In recent weeks, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the AFL-CIO have begun to use the new Citizens United rules to promote their preferred candidates in closely fought contests, such as […]
Category: IRS
Nonprofit electioneering pitfalls outlined
McGuireWoods prepared a primer on how nonprofits can avoid the pitfalls of electioneering from a tax perspective and the document is here.
Group to IRS: Watch the unions
The Washington Times reports on the Landmark Legal Foundation’s letter to the IRS regarding reports of unions’ political activity in 2010. A conservative public-interest law firm has asked the Internal Revenue Service to make sure three large national labor unions comply with tax and disclosure laws in their planned spending of nearly $100 million to […]