IRS revokes tax-free status

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June 16, 2011

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Thu Jun 16, 2011, 03:28 AM EDT

MALONE — Dozens of North Country nonprofit agencies have automatically lost their tax-free status with the Internal Revenue Service.

But organizations can re-apply for reinstatement and pay a fee to restore their status, the IRS said in a news release.

REQUIRED FILING

Nonprofit status is lost when a tax-exempt organization fails to file an annual information notice with the IRS for three consecutive years; in this case, it was for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

"During the past several years, the IRS has gone the extra mile to help make tax-exempt groups aware of their legal-filing requirement and allow them additional time to file," IRS Commissioner Doug Schulman said in a statement.

Some small groups still may not know the new requirements, he said, "and we are taking additional steps for these groups to maintain their tax-exempt status without jeopardizing or harming their donors."

DONATIONS

Donors who made tax-deductible contributions should not be impacted because donations made prior to the list being published remain tax deductible.

But those organizations that are not reinstated are no longer eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions, and any income they receive could be taxed.

LOWER FEE

The IRS is offering transition relief to organizations with annual gross receipts of $50,000 or less for 2010 to help them regain their nonprofit status.

The organizations can regain their eligibility retroactive to the date of revocation by paying a lower, $100 application fee, rather than the typical $400 to $850 fee.

The release states that most tax-exempt groups file the requested paperwork and that a majority of the newly revoked agencies on the list "are no longer in existence and need to be removed from the tax-exempt list, as the 2006 law requires."

The full list of organizations that automatically lost their status is available at www.IRS.gov.

Here are the nonprofit agencies listed for Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties, although some may have since filed their report and been reinstated:

CLINTON COUNTY

From Plattsburgh: Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Inc.; Clinton County Orchestral Society; Good Cause Inc.; American Guild of Organists; Skating Club of the Adirondacks; Lake Champlain Women's Lakers; Ronald Stafford Cancer Support; Knights of Columbus; Service Corps of Retired Executives; Society for Thai Philately; American Federation of Labor and Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations; For All Interested Residents Inc., 338 Cornelia St.; For All Interested Residents Inc., 35 Olivetti Place; Plattsburgh Cooperative Nursery; Hungarian Minorities Help Foundation Inc.; CCMHA Holding Corp.; Phi Kappa Chi Sorority Inc.; New York State Naturopathic Medical Association; Girls Premier Soccer United Inc.; Theta Kappa Beta Alpha Chapter; Sigma Delta Tau Society; Plattsburgh Air Force Base Officers Club; Plattsburgh Air Force Base Enlisted Officers Club; and Plattsburgh Air Force Base Officers Spouses Club.

Also, New York State Certified Officials, Cadyville; PTA New York Congress, Champlain; Town of Champlain Local Development Corp.; American Association of Witloof Endive Growers Inc., Chazy; Knights of Columbus, Lyon Mountain; Lyon Mountain EMS Inc.; American Legion Ralph J. Davison, Mooers; American Legion Post 852, Dannemora; Saranac Cooperative Nursery, Dannemora; American Legion, Morrisonville; RID Clinton County, Morrisonville; North Country Women's Center, Peru; Port Kent Cemetery Association Inc., Port Kent; and West Chazy Rural Cemetery Corp.

ESSEX COUNTY

Monarch Rod and Gun Club, Minerva; American Federation of Teachers, Newcomb; Adirondack Curriculum Project, Newcomb; Ticonderoga Equestrians; Knights of Columbus, Ticonderoga; Citizens for Area Medical Advancement Inc., Ticonderoga; Catholic Daughters of American 794, Ticonderoga; Fairview Cemetery Association, AuSable Forks; AuSable Acres Land Trust Inc.; Adirondack Biomedical Research, AuSable Forks; AuSable Jaycees Inc., AuSable Forks; Jeanne M. Carey Hardy Memorial Fund, AuSable Forks; Knights of Columbus, Bloomingdale; Free and Accepted Masons of New York, Crown Point; Hammond Public Library, Crown Point; Knights of Columbus, Elizabethtown; Free and Accepted Masons, Elizabethtown; Essex County Senior Citizens Action Committee, Elizabethtown; American Legion Post 1055, Elizabethtown; Mildred Publishing Co., Elizabethtown; Navy League of the United States, Elizabethtown; Women Today, Keene; Litchfield Rowing Association Inc., Keene; American Legion Post 1312, Keene Valley; Keener Image Inc., Keene Valley; Keene-Keene Valley Senior Citizens; Paraclete-Tapawingo Ltd., Lake Placid; Voiture Nationale La Societe Des 40, Lake Placid; Adirondack Speed Skating Club, Lake Placid; Adirondack Society of Physicians Assistants, Lake Placid; Associcion Des Las Indias Occidental, Lewis; the Lewis Cemetery Corp.; Mineville High School Alumni; Champlain Health Concerns Inc., Mineville; Acts Ministry, Mineville; American Legion Post 405, Willsboro; Catholic Daughters of America 867, Willsboro; PTA New York State Congress, 1233, Willsboro; Willsboro Property Owners; Veterans of Foreign Wars, 2534 Essex, Wilmington; and Whiteface Preservation, Wilmington.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Akwesasne Senior Citizens Inc., Bombay; Catholic Daughters of America, Brainardsville; Free and Accepted Masons of New York, Brushton; Bread of Life Food Pantry, Chateaugay; Knights of Columbus, Chateaugay; Chateaugay Little League; National Association of Letter Carriers, Constable; Fort Covington Grange Post 937, Fort Covington; Knights of Columbus, Fort Covington; American Legion Auxiliary, Fort Covington; Amvets, Fort Covington; Marine Corps League, Hogansburg; Iroquois Venture Corporation, Hogansburg; Upper Saranac-St Regis Lakes, Lake Clear; Cameron Family North Point Inc., Lake Clear; New York Marathon Canoe Racing Inc., Lake Clear; Bangor Volunteer Fire Company Inc., North Bangor; and Camp Luck Inc., St. Regis Falls.

From Malone: Davis School PTO; Franklin County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Greater Malone Community Council; Caring Friends Inc.; Advocates Associated Inc.; Knights of Columbus; North Franklin Birthright Inc.; Malone Economic Development Corp.; Emmaus Soup Kitchen Inc.; Winifred Sperry Estate Academic Board of Central School; Winifred Sperry Estate-Eastman School of Music; Winifred Sperry Estate-Emerson; Adirondack Crisis Center Inc.; Catholic Daughters of America 122.

From Saranac Lake: First Responders Emergency Medical; Kiwanis International Inc.; Saranac Lake Police Benevolent Association; Medical Society of Franklin County; Saranac Lake Youth Activities; Good Grief Experience Inc.; Sister Cities Association; Catholic Daughters of America 787; International Association of Lions; Civil Service Employees Association; and WEMGO Charitable Trust.

From Tupper Lake: Wawbeek Development Corp.; Community Link; Lodge 640 Loyal Order of the Moose; American Legion Post 220; Tupper Lake Presents Ltd.; and the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce.