Examines the highly complex set of rules and regulations which govern charitable giving. Beginning with an introductory overview, it provides comprehensive information on the laws, definitions and forms of various charitable gifts, ranging from art to real estate and beyond. Includes information on the most current tax laws and explains the fundamentals of establishing and maintaining a giving program. Additional topics include limitations on charitable giving; estate and tax considerations; special gift situations; gifts to charitable remainder and lead trusts; gifts to pooled income funds; charitable gift annuities; gifts using life insurance; administration of charitable giving; disclosure rules; special events and fund-raising regulations. Subscribers to receive annual supplements. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition is completely revised, revamped, and updated. Written in plain English, it can help lawyers, managers, and development directors in tax-exempt organizations make sure they are up to date on all current regulations pertaining to charitable gifts, and that they are well prepared to make decisions about their organization’s fund-development program.

Written by the country’s leading legal authority on tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving, this Third Edition features coverage of:

• New rules concerning charitable contributions of used vehicles and intellectual property
• New rules addressing the concepts of income and principal
• New characterization and ordering rules applicable to charitable remainder trusts
• Applying the public policy doctrine to the availability of the charitable deduction
• The impact of the tax cut legislation on the charitable giving rules

The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition is a go-to resource for nonprofit lawyers, nonprofit accountants, fundraising professionals, nonprofit executives, directors and managers, nonprofit consultants, financial planners, insurance companies, and corporate and (big) individual donors.

About the Author

Bruce R. Hopkins is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, with the firm of Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC, having practiced law in Washington, D.C., for 26 years. He specializes in the field of charitable giving. His practice ranges over the entirety of tax matters involving charitable giving (including planned giving) and tax-exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins served as Chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; Chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and President, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C. He was accorded the Assistant Commissioner's (IRS) Award in 1984.