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IRS Revokes Tax Exempt Status of 120 Gaithersburg Non-Profits
The non-profits were at least three years late in filing their returns.
Because 120 Gaithersburg nonprofits did not file annual tax returns, their tax-exempt status has been revoked, according to a list on the Internal Revenue Service website.
Included are Meals on Wheels of Quince Orchard, the West Riding Citizens Association, and the Gaithersburg Hockey Club.
The New York Times reported 275,000 nonprofits across the U.S. had their statuses revoked as a result of noncompliance with a 2006 federal law, the Pension Protection Act, that requires all nonprofits — rather than just those that made more than $25,000 in revenue — to file annually. Nonprofits were required to comply starting with their 2010 tax returns.
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Lois Lerner, director of the division of the IRS that oversees tax-exempt groups, told the Times she believes most of the organizations on the list are defunct, as there was a large outreach last summer after the IRS realized about a quarter of the nonprofit groups stood to lose their status. The total number of nonprofit groups is now down about 17 percent.
The data is raw, and contains mis-spellings and incomplete names.
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