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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Broadband internet access is available through one of the national telecoms that serves the area, but connections are typically below the advertised speed and outages are frequent. Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. Rather, policy prevents it in often subtle ways.

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Understanding Unrelated Business Income in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

However, as detailed in Publication 598 of the Internal Revenue Service, income not directly related to their declared charitable purpose is subject to federal taxation. This is called the unrelated business income tax, or UBIT. So how do you know if your nonprofit organization has taxable unrelated business income?

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Comprising consultants, attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, and others, this wealth defense industry employs various tools to hide wealth and avoid taxation. The wealth defense industry’s sole professional purpose is to ensure the maintenance and growth of excessive wealth.

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

Understanding what was achieved and where Biden and his team fell short is critical to understanding why the supposed break from corporate-dominated neoliberalism is far less than advertised. Taxation also did not significantly change. Did Biden and his team want to be transformational? Surely, they tried.