onPhilanthropy: Articles: State Charity Registration Laws: You Can't Ignore Them Any Longer

onPhilanthropy: Articles: State Charity Registration Laws: You Can't Ignore Them Any Longer: "State Charity Registration Laws: You Can't Ignore Them Any Longer
Friday, July 31, 2009
By: Tony Martignetti, Esq.

State charity registration laws have been ignored for decades. Until earlier this year, I wouldn't have been given space to write about them. There is no penalty for breaking most of them and the few states that have penalties rarely enforce them, so there's been no incentive to comply. Until the IRS stepped in."