Navigating the IRS non-profit rules

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Non-profit news organizations may be the coming thing in journalism but they're having trouble convincing the Internal Revenue Service that they deserve tax-exempt status, Justin Ellis writes on the Nieman Journalism Lab site. One reason: Their applications often describe them as journalism organizations. "That’s a problem, because the IRS doesn’t recognize journalism as one of the defined categories eligible for non-profit status. But what is eligible? Education."

March 29, 2012

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