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Clubs organized for pleasure and recreation can qualify for federal exemption under section 501(c)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code. The exemption works very differently from charitable status. What Qualifies Section 501(c)(7) covers clubs organized for pleasure,...
An IRS determination letter recognizes a charity’s federal tax exemption. It does not register the charity to solicit in Florida, and it does not give donors the paperwork they need to deduct a gift. Five steps close the gap. Register Before Soliciting Unless an...
As a business owner, you may want your family to maintain some stability if something happens to you. But if you own part of a Florida limited liability company (LLC), passing on your share does not always mean passing on your role in running the business. Florida law...
The package looks convincing. A certificate of church status, a set of bylaws, an EIN letter from the IRS, and an assurance that the organization is now exempt and owes the government nothing further. Founders who buy these packages usually discover the problem during...
Accountants and wealth advisors see problems before lawyers do. You are in the records every quarter. You see the aging receivable, the missed filing, the entity that never quite got cleaned up, the transfer that happened without documentation. By the time the matter...
Most writing about Florida construction liens addresses a contractor with one unpaid job. That is not the problem a credit manager at a building material supplier actually has. The problem is thirty or eighty open jobs, each with its own first furnishing date, its own...
On July 1, 2026, the statute that governs every Florida nonprofit corporation was rewritten. CS/CS/HB 797, enacted as chapter 2026-168, Laws of Florida, comprehensively revised chapter 617 and renamed it the Florida Nonprofit Corporation Act. The Legislature aligned...
Many leaders who run charities face a tough problem. They want to help their communities, but they also want to change laws and policies that create problems in the first place. However, they worry that speaking up too much might hurt their nonprofit’s special tax...
Every consequential business decision carries legal weight. Signing a supplier agreement, hiring a key executive, taking on an investor, terminating an underperformer: each move either strengthens your company’s position or quietly plants the exposure that surfaces...
Tax exemption is not a status an organization obtains. It is a status an organization maintains, and it is lost on a schedule. The filings below are unglamorous, individually simple, and collectively the reason several thousand organizations lose their exemption every...