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258.4 sec. 1 - Not-For-Profit Organizations (Spring 2011)

Instructor: Michael Antin  (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 2
Meeting Time: Th 3:35-5:25
Meeting Location: 123

Course Start: January 13, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49763


We will investigate the nonprofit organization, with respect to its structure, organization, tax exemption, tax status, charitable deduction, private inurement, private benefit, excess benefit and prohibited transactions, administration, marketing, legislative activities and lobbying, political activity, operational considerations, commerciality doctrine, unrelated business activities and exceptions, feeder organizations, debt-financed income and leasing rules - all compared to non exempt business organizations. We will also have guest lecturers from the nonprofit community to discuss marketing, developing a donor group, mission, historical development and management. Each student will be required to submit a paper organizing a nonprofit organization and completing the paperwork to submit the entity to the IRS.

This course satisfies the Skills Requirement.

Special Notes: LE(24)
Course Category: Tax, Estates, and Trusts
This course is cross-listed in the following categories:
Clinicals
Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP)
Law and Society
Public Law and Policy
Social Justice and Public Interest

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Books:
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  • The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations
    Brucxe R. Hopkins
    Edition: ninth edition
    Publisher: John Wiley & sons
    ISBN: 9780470037607
    Copyright Date: To Be Determined
    Price: $284.75
    Note: prices are sampled from internet bookstores. Folletts prices are unavailable at this time.

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