Legal and fiscal regulation

 

Monitoring EU regulations: when cooperation works

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Counter-terrorism measures implemented by the European Union can have a detrimental effect on the work of foundations and other non-profit organizations (NPOs) operating both in and beyond the EU. That is why the Stockholm Programme, the new EU programme in the area of freedom, security and justice for 2010-14, has been such a focus of attention and concern for the EFC in recent months. Click here to read ...


US philanthropy’s response to Obama’s tax proposals: views from the US, Italy and the UK

Ellen Remmer, Massimo Lanza & Charles Keidan
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

Kudos to Gara LaMarche for challenging US philanthropy’s negative response to Obama’s proposal to partially finance health reform through capping the charitable tax deduction (Alliance, June 2009). Gara raises important moral, political and pragmatic questions about the role that private philanthropy should play in a time of crisis, primarily invoking the ‘higher plane’ argument for a sector that prides itself on service for the greater good. Click here to read ...


Progress for third sector in Kyrgyzstan and Laos

1 July 2009
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An agreement was signed in May between the government of Kyrgyzstan and the country’s third sector committing both parties to cooperation in a number of areas, including enforcement of legislative norms, guaranteeing human and citizens’ rights within the country; and public supervision over government’s decision-making at all levels. In addition, the government of Laos has passed a law which allows local NGOs to register and operate as independent entities for the first time. Click here to read ...


Russia moves to ease legislative burden on NGOs, Azerbaijan postpones vote on potentially punitive legislation

1 July 2009
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Amid fears in the non-profit community of a crackdown on NGOs, Azerbaijan’s parliament has decided to postpone indefinitely a vote on legislative amendments that would place severe restrictions on the country’s NGOs. The news follows representations by the Azeri ombudsman Elmira Suleimanova, acting at the request of non-profit groups, to parliament to stop or to push back to the autumn a hearing on the changes. Among other measures, the amendments would require NGOs to limit their foreign funding to 50 per cent of their entire budget and would ban foreigners from setting up NGOs. Click here to read ...


Changes to Jersey law will allow establishment of mixed foundations free of UK mainland charity regulation

1 July 2009
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As a result of legislative changes in the Channel Island of Jersey, from this month, philanthropists will now be able to set up a foundation with a mixture of charitable and non-charitable purposes, free from UK mainland charity regulation. Jersey foundations will have features of both corporations and trusts. They will have to be registered in Jersey, will be subject to Jersey law and will have to have at least one Jersey resident on their council of members. Click here to read ...


New NGO Repository to aid grantmaking to non-US charities

1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

In October 2009, TechSoup Global, a San-Francisco-based technology non-profit, was selected by the Council of Foundations to host the NGO Equivalency Determination (ED) Repository, which will help US-based foundations provide grants to organizations around the world by streamlining the process of qualifying non-US grantees as the equivalents of US public charities. Pending approval from the IRS, the Repository is expected to launch in 2010. Click here to read ...


US philanthropy’s response to Obama’s tax proposal
Gara LaMarche

US philanthropy’s response to Obama’s tax proposal

Gara LaMarche
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

A new administration in Washington seems determined to narrow the gap between rich and poor, which has widened in recent years, and to begin to strengthen the fraying social safety net by pressing for national health care – a goal that has eluded presidents since Harry Truman. It is a heady time, but the changes have exposed some uncomfortable truths about parts of the US non-profit sector. Click here to read ...


Donor intent

1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

According to Congressman Xavier Becerra, the US federal government forgoes $44 billion in revenues annually to subsidize charitable donations. Fernando Rossetti suggests that it makes sense to attach charitable contributions to public policies and purposes.  It certainly does in return for a $44 billion subsidy by taxpayers. Click here to read ...


Senate throws out Obama’s proposal to limit tax deductions for wealthy

1 April 2009
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Fortune Forum’s tax-relief-for-aid proposal attracts mixed press

1 April 2009
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