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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe IRS will no longer ask the NRA and other nonprofit groups to disclose donors.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/17/17581384/irs-dark-money-nra-maria-butina-donorsThe government is making it easier for dark money donors to go unnamed
The IRS will no longer ask the NRA and other nonprofit groups to disclose donors.
By Emily Stewart Jul 17, 2018, 1:00pm EDT
The United States government is making it easier for dark money donors to keep their contributions, well, in the dark. The Treasury Department on Monday said it planned to end requirements that certain tax-exempt organizations identify their financial contributors on their tax returns.
The decision means groups such as the National Rifle Association, Planned Parenthood, and the AARP will no longer have to tell the IRS whos giving them money.
The decision landed the same day as the Justice Department announced the arrest of Maria Butina, a Russian national with NRA ties who is accused of trying to influence US politics. Ethics experts say Treasurys maneuver will make identifying activities like those Butina has been accused of even harder to track.
Labor unions, volunteer fire departments, issue advocacy groups, local chambers of commerce, veterans groups, community service clubs, and other so-called social welfare 501(c)(4) groups or those that dont generally get tax-deductible contributions will be freed of requirements that they list the names or addresses of their donors on their annual returns with the IRS.
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The IRS will no longer ask the NRA and other nonprofit groups to disclose donors. (Original Post)
G_j
Jul 2018
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Wait until the Democratic Party gets way more secret donors
than GOPers, if they are still a viable political group and or change name to ummmmmmmm t-rump's white nationalist party, that regulation and suit against said regulation will be brought back to the USSC . . .
G_j
(40,366 posts)2. This was supposedly passed
within 24 hrs. of their (NRA) collusion with a Russian spy.
(need to verify)