This drill-down session focuses on Part V, providing substantive background materials on "what really is" being asked, or at stake in each of the inquiries in Part V. This part requires filers to disclose their compliance with multiple other areas of federal tax law that are not elsewhere addressed in the 990.
DESIGNED FOR
Public accounting tax and audit staff, and nonprofit organization's Treasurers, CFOs and finance/compliance staff
BENEFITS
After attending this presentation you will be able to...
- Identify the three "gotcha" questions in Part V: (1) regarding payroll tax reporting, (2) need to file unrelated business income tax return, and (3) disclosures related to soliciting or receiving contributions
- Apply overview background information in communicating with filers on multiple non-990
- Assist filers in appreciating both the current e-filing trigger and in avoiding the common misunderstandings of what conditions yield a true "common paymaster"
- Identify where filers should be apprised of additional areas where tax advice/counsel would be appropriate
HIGHLIGHTS
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:
- Line-by-line exploration of Part V's regulatory laundry-list of additional tax compliance points the exempt sector is responsible for outside of maintaining exemption
- Substantive background on the underlying line-specific tax issues relating to four key lines:
- How the presence of a common paymaster alters the count of “number of employees” [and how the latter does or does not factor into the current mandatory e-filing rules for larger organizations] (Line 2)
- When a Form 990-T filing is required (Line 3a)
- The quid pro quo solicitation disclosure mandates (Line 7a/7b)
- Need to communicate with solicitations that the organization is not eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Line 6a/6b)
- The multiple, often overlapping, disclosures or tax filings required when a filer receives large tax-deductible contributions or certain types of property toward such contributions
- Explanation of the basics behind the excise tax schemes applied to filers:
- holding "donor-advised funds" (Lines 8 and 9)
- subject to either of the two new excise tax schemes added by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
- Potholes in culling the current and prior year’s tax return information necessary to complete Part I's Lines 8–22
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
PREREQUISITES
Some knowledge of Form 990 helpful
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None