http://www.better-hospitals.com/2009/02/irs-investigating-level-of-support-for-non-profit-tax-status/ Ideas, Information, Insights and Inspiration Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.better-hospitals.com/2009/02/irs-investigating-level-of-support-for-non-profit-tax-status/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Irs » IRS Investigating Level of Support for Non-Profit Tax Status Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:02:06 +0000 http://www.stevekayser.com/?p=71#comment-2 [...] Better American Hospitals wrote an interesting post today on IRS Investigating Level of Support for Non-Profit Tax StatusHere’s a quick excerptBut using a bully club of IRS threats to withdraw tax benefits to struggling hospitals just seems to me to be the wrong way to achieve anything positive….The IRS study found that hospitals give back 9% of their total revenues on providing community benefits, including free medical care, education and research….The real issue is that Congress nor the IRS have clearly defined what a community benefit is — and that is a good thing…. [...] [...] Better American Hospitals wrote an interesting post today on IRS Investigating Level of Support for Non-Profit Tax StatusHere’s a quick excerptBut using a bully club of IRS threats to withdraw tax benefits to struggling hospitals just seems to me to be the wrong way to achieve anything positive….The IRS study found that hospitals give back 9% of their total revenues on providing community benefits, including free medical care, education and research….The real issue is that Congress nor the IRS have clearly defined what a community benefit is — and that is a good thing…. [...]

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