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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

When it comes to racial and economic justice and government taxation, federal policy tends to get the most attention. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging shifting the tax burden from the well-to-do to the least well off.

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Equitable Taxation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paolo de Renzio An excerpt from A Taxing Journey on ways civic actors can help close country-level tax loopholes

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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

While many countries including Canada, Italy, and South Korea have established rules governing social cooperatives, including having supportive policies such as preferential procurement rules, favorable taxation regimes, and dedicated grants, in the United States, the concept of social cooperatives has not yet been formally recognized.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. The reason we don’t have large-scale mutualism popping off everywhere is not that people don’t want it. Rather, policy prevents it in often subtle ways.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Taxation with Representation of Washington , which held that the Section 501c3 prohibition of substantial lobbying was constitutional, concluding that an organization’s right to speak need not be subsidized. See Regan v.

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Can Taxes Reduce Inequality? What a Study of State and Local Taxes Tells Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) published Who Pays: A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, its seventh study on the topic since 1996 and its first since 2018. What Is State Taxation Like Today? A Progressive Path Can state taxation be progressive?

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BDO’s Rebekuh Eley Appointed to AICPA’s Exempt Organization Taxation Technical Resource Panel

BDO

BDO is pleased to announce that Rebekuh Eley, tax senior director in Chicago and a member of the Nonprofit & Education practice, has been appointed to serve as associate member on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Exempt Organization (EO) Taxation Technical Resource Panel (TRP).