The True Story of Nonprofits and Taxes (Spring 2019)

Nonprofits are widely misunderstood to be a tax-free sector of the economy—a misunderstanding predicated on nonprofits’ tax-exempt status. In fact, nonprofits operate on “both sides of the ledger,” as this article explains, paying out billions in taxes, in tax withholdings for others, and in fees. So why do proposals to tax the sector keep popping up, and how should the sector respond? by Jon Pratt