This easy-to-understand, easy-to-use workbook simplifies the tax code and offers great guidance and advice for the submission of yearly tax returns. Busby provides wonderful resources such as line-by-line explanations of tax forms and interprets new changes in the federal tax code. Meant to fulfill your legal requirements and minimize your tax burden, this book is a treasure of information and suggestions for all levels of financial maturity in Christian ministry.
Written by a lawyer for non-lawyers, Charitable Giving Law Made Easy takes the mystery out of the rules and regulations surrounding gifts to charitable organizations and provides legal novices with a useful understanding of charitable giving law. Hopkins clearly explains the definition of a charitable gift, percentage limitations, rules as to gifts of property, planned giving, and the substantiation and appraisal requirements that apply to nonprofit organizations. Packed with practical tips and hard to find advice.
Regardless of your occupation, title, or status it is imperative to know your legal rights. This completely revised and updated edition from the nation's leading legal authority provides the insights and information you need to be fully informed. Dealing with the complexities of hiring, firing, retirement, sexual harassment, maternity leave, workplace safety, etc, this book covers it all in easily understood, applicable language. Complete with tips and suggestions, this is a must have resource for any employee or organization.
This is a wonderful resource that tackles the increasingly complex maze of fund-raising regulations. Updated annually, it details federal and state laws, with an emphasis on administrative, tax, and constitutional law. State and federal rules impacting the responsibilities of fund-raising professionals are explained, as well as compliance issues, prospective laws, and regulatory trends. It also explores compliance issues, prospective laws, and regulatory trends. Features summaries of every state's Charitable Contribution Solicitation Act. Includes scores of tables of cases, IRS rulings and pronouncements, an 82-item IRS checklist for monitoring charitable fund-raising, and sample IRS forms.
Make sure you are up-to-date on all current regulations pertaining to tax-exempt organizations with the help of this easy-to-read book. Written for lawyers, managers, accountants and directors of tax-exempt organizations, Hopkins will help you prepare to make decisions about your organization's actions and future. Includes references to IRS Code provisions, tax regulations, court opinions, and public and private rulings from the IRS.
This is a must-read roadmap for executives, board members, accountants, fundraisers, and other professionals who handle legal issues that affect the operations of nonprofit organizations. Renowned expert Hopkins provides detailed and thorough discussions on topics including: tax-exempt status, requirements for reporting, fundraising and giving, disclosure, governance, and liability. Complete with tips and suggestions for avoiding common legal mistakes, organizations will find this book invaluable.
The most comprehensive and practical legal reference book ever published for churches and clergy, Pastor, Church & Law is a virtual encyclopedia of legal information needed by every church and minister. Billy Graham has commented, "Pastor, Church & Law ought to be studied by every pastor and other church leader in America." It covers such topics as the use of church property by outside groups, authorities and limitations of the church, interpretations of amendments relating to religion, and the church's failure to report child abuse.
This edition offers a comprehensive treatment of the law as it relates to employers and employees reflecting the author's personal experience as both a practicing lawyer and personnel director. Simply written and easy to follow, it bridges the gap between law and human relations management. With new studies of case law and legal principles, this book covers new statutes and provides a wonderful place to begin in the seeking of legal counsel.
This indispensable companion to the best-selling The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eighth Edition offers professionals representing and advising tax-exempt organizations a wide variety of practical planning tips, guidance, and information that can help them better serve clients. Written by the leading legal authority in the nonprofit sector, this guide features a digest of recent legislation, court opinions, and IRS public and private rulings. It includes a helpful checklist of forms and an inventory of penalties. Additionally, it features commentaries designed to provide guidance and perspective to exempt professionals and organizations as to how to cope with the development in the law in their practices and the operation of their programs. [review by Amazon.com.]
Whether you are a nonprofit novice, a nonprofit guru or anyone in between, this book from Bruce Hopkins contains the expertise you will need to protect your organization successfully when it comes to nonprofit law. This must-have guide and practical reference (3rd edition) offers information on every conceivable legal aspect of operating a nonprofit organization. Completely updated and expanded, readers will find clear and concise advice and learn the new subtleties of government regulations, corporate, fundraising and tax law, and nonprofit governance.
Jennifer Chandler Hauge and Melanie L. Herman (2006)
Employees are both an organization's greatest asset and their greatest liability. This resource offers the help you need to effectively manage employment risk. It contains valuable information on developing sound, defensible employment practices that are practical, as well as fair and compassionate. This updated edition offers state of the practice guidance, as well as insights on current and emerging topics in the employment landscape. Taking the High Road features 21 sample policies and checklists, plus 19 state-by-state comparisons of key employment laws.
Updated annually, this is the fundraiser's ultimate resource for the tax and legal aspects of fundraising for the nonprofit organization. Written for the lay person, as well as the advisors to donors and charitable organizations, this valuable resource covers the latest legislation and is filled with tax-saving insights.
M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Shemel, John M Gross, and Jonathan Feinstein (2007)
Not technically a legal text, but a great resource on intellectual property issues. Now in its tenth edition, This Business of Music has been revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. An entirely new chapter has been added, asking and answering the question "Are there borders in cyberspace?" The answer is yes, and the book clearly and concisely explains what they are and how to maintain them. Commentary on recent legislation, a reader-friendly summary of the laws on copyright duration, and much more insightful analysis—plus fully updated lists of music organizations and important Web sites—make this a useful resource. [From a review on Amazon.com]
