The DLC also points to other issue-flavored (c)(4)s--Empower America, the Log Cabin Republicans and the Republican Main Street Partnership--whose founders are identified with one party.
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Now, during the past couple of elections there has been a surge in applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.
The IRS review occurred after officials noticed that the number of applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status doubled between 2010 and 2012.
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Here is the outline of the story: From 2010 to 2012 the number of applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status doubled, from 1, 700 to 3, 400.
But one reason this misconduct occurred was that after Citizens United, the IRS was deluged with thousands of applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status, and many of the organizations were obviously political groups claiming to be "social welfare" organizations.
If the organization is big enough, it might even be set up as two organizations, a 501(c)(3) that can accept tax-deductible contributions and a 501(c)(4) that can't.
As we noted last week, Democracy 21 is itself a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) corporation.
Instead, they say it stemmed from a misguided effort to centralize review of a growing number of applications for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status.
The EWA is a dues-free 501(c)(4) umbrella organization representing over 200 member organizations and hundreds of individual members worldwide in 18 countries.
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Republicans also are questioning whether the IRS improperly released confidential donor information about the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization.
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In contrast to public charities organized as 501(c)(3)s, contributions to (c)(4)s are not tax-deductible.
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In early August 2008, the New York Times trumpeted the creation of a left-wing group (a 501(c)4) called Accountable America.
The free-speech rights of 501(c)(4)s, however, are not absolute.
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Crossroads GPS is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that builds grass-roots support for conservative policies that encourage economic growth, reduce needless regulation, promote fiscal responsibility and strengthen national security.
Groups granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code are allowed to engage in some political activity, but their primary focus is supposed to be promoting social welfare.
The IRS has said applications from groups seeking to be treated as tax-exempt social-welfare groups under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code more than doubled from 2010 to 2012, presenting challenging legal issues.
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The IRS had little interest in 501(c)(4) political activities until the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform.
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These groups claim tax-exempt status under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code, which is for social welfare groups.
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Tax-exempt social-welfare groups organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code are allowed to engage in some political activity, but the primary focus of their efforts must remain promoting social welfare.
Specifically, the IRS was looking into whether donors to certain tax-exempt organizations organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Tax Code would be liable for gift tax on donations that were, in many cases, well into the six figures.
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The governor's fondest idea was allegedly to trade the Senate seat for a 501(c)4 organization that he believed the country's best-known billionaires would graciously fund and that he would get to lead.
Nationally, an average of 59.4% of pupils got five or more A-C grades, one of which had to be English.
Yet McCain-Feingold had the unintended effect of making 501(c)(4) political activities far more important than they had been, since the law's ban on soft money doesn't apply to such groups.
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