ISLAMIC GROUP CAIR LOSES TAX STATUS, YET STILL ASKS FOR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFTS

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The Blaze:

The controversial Council for Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) has officially lost its tax-exempt status. Earlier this month, the organization appeared on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) list of over 275,000 non-profit organizations that were purged for not filing necessary paperwork. The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has more regarding why these non-profits, including CAIR, were removed:

The groups failed to file required annual reports, known as form 990s, detailing their revenues and expenses, for three consecutive years. CAIR had been a non-profit on its own, but in 2007, the IRS approved a separate tax-exempt CAIR Foundation. The foundation never filed any subsequent reports. Both the foundation and CAIR national are on the purge list.

The IRS believes that most of the groups listed are no longer operational, but for those who clearly still plan to function (CAIR being one of them), a re-application process has been implemented.

Despite no longer being a tax-exempt organization (at least for the time being), CAIR is still touting donations to the organization as “tax-deductible.” Below, see a screenshot taken of the group’s web site earlier today:

[Pepper]

It's still on their website, so it must be true: the heck with the IRS.

 

 

 

Copyright © 2011, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). All rights reserved. CAIR® is a registered trademark.

CAIR is a not-for-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 501©(3).

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Pepper

 

Taaxes.com: CAIR Appeals to IRS After Tax-Exempt Status Revoked

June 23rd, 2011

 

The largest Muslim advocacy group in the country plans to appeal to the IRS to regain its tax-exempt status after that status was revoked over an apparent problem with its paperwork.

 

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as the offshoot CAIR Foundation, was included earlier this month on a massive list of 275,000 organizations that the IRS said were losing their tax-exempt status because they did not file required annual reports.

 

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Paper "snafu". Hmmm. I pay an accountant a small amount of money (1Kish) range to deal with state and IRS tax exempt paperwork for a foundation. Somehow I think the problem is not they did not file paperwork due to oversite, but because they needed to avoid it, or there is a real issue with what they do.