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A benchmark resource, revised and expanded
The Eighth Edition to The Law of Tax Exempt Organizations is an important revision and expansion of the definitive one-volume source of information on federal laws by the leading legal authority in the nonprofit sector. Written in plain English and supplemented annually, this book helps the lawyers and managers of tax-exempt organizations make sure that they are up-to-date on all current regulations pertaining to tax-exempt organizations, and that they are well-prepared to make decisions about their organizations actions and future. The Eighth Edition provides detailed documentation and citations, such as references to regulations, rulings, cases, and tax literature (including current articles and tax law review notes) and includes an exhaustive index, Internal Revenue Code citations, tables of cases, and IRS rulings. Nonprofit executives, officers, and directors, and attorneys; accountants; members of boards of directors; and consultants will this popular resource to be an essential reference.
About the Author:
Bruce R. Hopkins is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, with the firm of Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC, having practiced law in Washington, D.C., for 26 years. He specializes in the representation of tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of tax matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, the law of charitable giving (including planned giving), and fundraising law issues.
Mr. Hopkins served as Chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; Chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and President, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C. He was accorded the Assistant Commissioner’s (IRS) Award in 1984.
Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of Wiley’s Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eighth Edition, he is the author of Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries; The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition; The Law of Fundraising, Third Edition; The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law; The Law of Intermediate Sanctions: A Guide for Nonprofits; Nonprofit Law Made Easy; 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered; The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; The Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; The Nonprofit Law Dictionary; Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Third Edition; and is the co-author, with Jody Blazek, of Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance, Second Edition; also with Ms. Blazek, The Legal Answer Book for Private Foundations; with D. Benson Tesdahl, of Intermediate Sanctions: Curbing Nonprofit Abuse; and with Thomas K. Hyatt, of The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Second Edition. He also writes Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprofit Counsel, a monthly newsletter, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Mr. Hopkins earned his J.D. and L.L.M. degrees at the George Washington University and his B.A. at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of Missouri.
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