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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

Specific issues addressed by MNA Following is a recap of specific issues MNA addressed in the context of our Public Policy Agenda. Like SB524 , SB557 would have made litigation expenses for nonprofits a non-charitable activity, subject to taxation. If it seems long, well… it was a long session. Together we are a force for good!

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2023 Montana Legislature: Week One

MNA Association

MNA’s primary focus is on bills related to the nonprofit sector generally including Appropriations, Taxation, Ballot initiatives, Voting/Elections, Campaign Finance, and Lobbying. In addition we will be monitoring proposed changes to the Montana Constitution in the context of the MNA Public Policy Agenda.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Establish and affiliate with a 501c4 organization that, under federal tax law, is not subject to a public charity’s lobbying limits and can engage in political campaign intervention so long as it is not its primary activity. See Regan v.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

That markets work and public policies fail. But when they write, “The inequality capitalism creates can be readily remedied through progressive taxation” (400) on the very same page where they discuss Thomas Piketty , it would appear that perhaps they haven’t read Piketty carefully enough.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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Why You Should Focus Your Fundraising Efforts on Generating Gifts of Wealth (from Assets) Not on Disposable Income (from Credit Cards, Checks, or Cash)

iMarketSmart

Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy, 14, 169-195. [4] Visual planned giving in color: An introduction to the law & taxation of charitable gift planning. American charitable bequest transfers across the centuries: Empirical findings and implications for policy and practice. 4] Wallace, J., & Erickson, J.

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Meet the New Global Tax Haven, the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many reasons, including public policies—both on the expenditure side (that is, government support for education, childcare, healthcare, and so on) and on the revenue side (that is, how progressive or regressive taxes are). What accounts for such extraordinary concentration of wealth at the top in the United States?

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