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Tax Reform and Not-for-Profit Organizations

Entrepreneur's Playbook | Episode: 696 | Guests: Annjeanette Yglesias | 0
Tax Reform is a hot topic and the changing tax rules apply to not-for-profit organizations as well. Jen continues her discussion with Annjeanette Yglesias, a tax manager on the PKF Texas Not-for-Profit team.

Jen:  This is the PKF Texas Entrepreneur’s Playbook.  I’m Jen Lemanski and I’m back again with Annjeanette Yglesias, one of our tax managers and a member of our not-for-profit team.  Annjeanette, welcome back to The Playbook.

Annjeanette:  Thanks Jen, it’s good to be here.

Jen:  So tax manager; tax reform is a hot topic this year.  How has it impacted not-for-profit organization?

Annjeanette:  It’s interesting because tax reform has been a hot topic and the tax reform has some direct impacts for nonprofit organizations as well as some indirect impacts because a lot of nonprofit organizations receive their funding from the general public.

Jen:  So what are some of the direct impacts not-for-profits have seen?

Annjeanette:  Well tax reform affected nonprofit organizations in several ways.  First of all with unrelated business income, or UBI, UBI activities were previously allowed to offset each other.  The losses from one could offset the income from another and so you had a netting effect.  But now with tax reform the IRS is requiring that all UBI activities must be reported individually.  So that benefit there is no longer available.  Also under tax reform the UBI tax rate has been lowered to 21%.  Previously it was a graduated scale with the highest tax bracket being 35%.

Jen:  Oh my gosh, so that’s a good thing?

Annjeanette:  Absolutely a good thing.  But there are also some more negative things that came out of tax reform as well.  For example the IRS is now imposing a 21% excise tax on compensation of covered employees over $1 million.

Jen:  Oh my gosh.

Annjeanette:  So basically that portion of an employee’s compensation that exceeds $1 million the nonprofit organization will have to pay a 21% excise tax on that.

Jen:  Oh my gosh.

Annjeanette:  In addition, there’s a 1.4% net investment income tax now imposed on certain educational institutions like private colleges and universities.  So that’s something else to think about.

Jen:  Now are there any indirect aspects?  You mentioned that earlier.

Annjeanette:  Yes, absolutely.  Because of the nature of nonprofit organizations, how they receive a lot of their funds from the general public, there are several provisions in tax reform that affected the general public, namely individuals.  So individuals now have a little bit of a decreased incentive to donate to nonprofit organizations because even though the individual income-based limitation increased to 60%, the standard deduction has now doubled.  So the incentive for an individual to make a donation to a nonprofit organization has been substantially reduced.

Jen:  Well great.  Well we’ll get you to talk some more about tax reform and not-for-profits and we’ll have you back again.

Annjeanette:  Sounds good.

Jen:  To learn more about how PKF Texas can help your not-for-profit organization visit PKFTexas.com/notforprofit.  This has been another Thought Leader production brought to you by PKF Texas The Entrepreneur’s Playbook.

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