What Does It Mean for a Nonprofit to Lose Tax-Exempt Status?

Several people are raising their hands, with many questions about losing nonprofit status.

Since 2011, more than 500,000 tax-exempt entities have lost their tax-exempt status automatically. This started in 2011 when the IRS announced that 275,000 nonprofit groups — about 18% of the nation’s tax-exempt organizations — lost their tax-exempt status because they failed to file IRS Form 990s for three consecutive years. Since then, organizations have continued […]