Posted on 12/02/2015 6:50:12 AM PST by Cheerio
Full title - "The IRS Wants Organizations to Collect Donors’ Social Security Numbers. This Tea Party Group Is Fighting Back."
A Tea Party organization is mobilizing its supporters nationwide in an attempt to stymie a proposed regulation from the Internal Revenue Service regarding the disclosures of donor information.
Tea Party Patriots is launching an email and social media campaign—using #IRSPowerGrab—today, encouraging supporters and conservative leaders nationwide to push back against a rule proposed by the Internal Revenue Service that would give nonprofits the option to collect the Social Security numbers of donors who contribute $250 or more to an organization.
“They don’t need to be collecting Social Security numbers. Donations to nonprofits are allowed to be kept confidential,†Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told The Daily Signal. “Having gone through the [IRS] targeting [of conservative groups] because our name is Tea Party Patriots, I’m very sensitive to anything that expands the IRS’ reach into nonprofits and who their donors are.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
I already refuse IRS charitable contribution tax deductions.
None of their damned business.
This would apply to only Republican and conservative organizations, right?
Just make the donation in the name of President Obama and give your intended operation ‘cash’ and his social security number. Flood the organizations with the paperwork. I don’t see a problem.
I already refuse IRS charitable contribution tax deductions.
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Me too.
Next up: Severe penalties for “structuring” contributions. For example, one gives $200 in the spring, and then decides to contribute $100 in the fall. Presto! Just like depositing less than $10,000 at your bank.... “suspiciously”.
... drat! I hate typos!
Ha. It says give them the "option" to collect SS numbers. And if a potential refuses to give their number does anyone really think the organization would refuse to collect the donation? This is just a first step toward making it mandatory.
Send them a money order, from “anonymous”.
My TP group decided after the IRS scandal not to incorporate at all. All of "our" property is owned by individual members. The organization owns nothing, has no income, no expenses and does not file. In other words, in the eyes of the IRS, it does not exist.
Don’t they already have that information? If you list charitable donations and file a tax form, they have your SS#. What am I missing?
IRS is trying to overburden these organizations with record keeping and cybersecurity requirements to the point they just throw up their hands and give-up.
One more year or so and these IRS folks will be looking for work and competing for jobs against the illegal invaders they so dearly love.
Schradofrauden-ginklehooping-frhuastinhammer.
Or whatever the Kraut word for getting your just deserts now be-yotch-eys!!!
:-)
If I let them have my money, they will only waste it.
If donors have to give charities their SSN to get a tax deduction, more will choose not to give anything or only give to one or two specified charities instead of many different ones simply due to the identity theft risk.
Only a few I think will choose to give money without the tax deduction.
There’s only one purpose for that: to harass political enemies.
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