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Thank you for visiting 501cFreeBook.

I have worked with tax exempt organizations since 1974, first with the IRS and later as a private tax consultant. Over the years, I have developed a number of "client education" materials. I have gathered some of these into various ebooks, but I still have a number of smaller, mostly unrelated items.

This website is a way of sharing this information with those who might find it useful.

The first set of materials on this site has to do with IRS Automatic Revocation of tax exempt status. Automatic Revocation occurs when a tax exempt organization that is required to file an annual return in the 990 family of forms fails to do so for three years in a row. So far, the IRS has revoked the exempt status of nearly 400,000 non-profits. It may be that most of these organizations are defunct. These materials are meant to help those organizations that are not.

The next few sets of materials have to do with the most popular types of non 501(c)(3) tax exempt status: 501(c)(4)social welfare organizations, 501(c)(5) labor and agricultural organizations, 501(c)(6) trade associations, and 501(c)(7) social clubs.

I have also posted the texts of some Revenue Rulings relevant to tax exempt organizations, but not found on the IRS website.

I plan to add to the topics above from time to time. I also plan to add additional materials, such as sample narratives, tipsheets for some of the less common types of exempt status, and a primer on how to look up an organization in the IRS downloadable database of tax exempts.

Please check back from time to time, to see what's new. If you have an exempt organizations topic you would like to see covered, please drop me an email at c3book@aol.com.

February, 2012 I have just revised my ebook, Prepare Your Own 501(c)(3) Application. Links, statistics, and the list of 1023's on the Internet have all been updated. New material includes three chapters for folks who are filing to have their status reinstated after Automatic Revocation, and four new handbook topics: Paperwork Burden of Form 1023; Recycling A Prior Application; Replacing Your Exemption Letter, and Next New Form 1023.

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This website last updated February, 2012