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Pryor Cashman client, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc., the largest women's Zionist organization in the United States, has defeated a lawsuit brought in the Southern District of New York ...

New state regulations will dramatically overhaul the way retailers and advertisers must approach cause marketing activities in California starting June 12, 2024.

Join us as we spotlight select chapters of Venable's popular Advertising Law Tool Kit, which helps marketing teams navigate their organization's legal risk.

For companies that are frustrated by the burdensome commercial co-venture licensing and registration requirements of some states, Maine has just provided a little relief.

Beginning January 1, 2016, all organizations that have a statutory exemption from the payment of Alabama sales, use or lodgings taxes...

The Tax Court has concluded in "Averyt v. Commissioner" that the actual deed conveying a conservation easement to a charitable organization constituted a contemporaneous written acknowledgement.

Under the reporting and disclosure rules in the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), most employee benefit plans must file an annual report ("Form 5500"), generally within seven months after the end of the plan's year.

Over the last decade, the IRS has assumed a broader role in the governance of tax-exempt organizations and embraced the view that transparency leads to tax compliance.

The First Circuit has vacated (Docket Nos. 11-2017 & 11-2033) the Tax Court opinion in Kaufman v. Commissioner (136 T.C. No. 13), denying a charitable deduction for the contribution of a façade easement on a Boston townhouse.

The biggest area of IRS audit concentration regarding noncompliance related to governance issues for tax-exempt groups is executive compensation, according to IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner

In a recent Tax Court case, Jan Elizabeth Van Dusen v. Commissioner,136 T.C. No. 25, the court allowed a volunteer's "unreimbursed expenses" incurred while taking care of stray cats in the taxpayer's home for a 501(c)(3) charity.

Only time will tell how the Act will change the charitable giving landscape.

The IRS has withdrawn proposed regulations on optional reporting by charitable organizations.

The IRS recently expanded the areas in which written post-issuance tax compliance procedures are being recommended and sought from 501(c)(3) organizations.

Congress and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are concerned about international tax havens, blocker organizations, and the operation of American Friends organizations abroad.

On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Committee released an updated text of draft tax legislation (the "House Draft Bill").

Along with making significant changes to the rules for supporting organizations ("SOs") and donor advised funds ("DAFs") in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the "PPA"), Congress directed that Treasury conduct a study on the organization and operation of SOs and DAFs.