[Michlib-l] IRS tax exempt database

[Ann Perrigo]

Sounds like a problem with the IRS.  Libraries should be in that dataBase.
Shall we flood them with phone calls?  Emails?

Hehehe...

Ann @ Albion



On Thursday, November 6, 2014, John Sheridan <stcdld at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Recently I went to apply for a grant from PNC Bank online.  I was stopped
> when I got to the part where their system checks the tax exempt status from
> the IRS exempt organization database.  It seems that public libraries are
> not listed unless they have a 501 (c) 3 status.  I phoned the IRS and was
> instructed to file form 1023 a few days later when I phoned the IRS to get
> a clarification on a question I was told that we would need to file for 501
> (c ) 3 status first.  So my question to the collective wisdom and
> experience librarians, is there a way to get onto the IRS tax exempt
> database without filing 501 (c) 3?  By the way, according to the IRS
> libraries are government entities under 509 (A) 170 (B) ( 1) ( a ) ( V) and
> thus tax exempt but not on the tax exempt database.  Curiously, form 1023
> does not list the above 509 status but does have the (1) ( a) ( IV) and
> (VI).
> More and more foundations are looking at on-line applications and have the
> same verification step which stops the process.
>
> John Sheridan
> Vicksburg District Library
> jsheridan at vicksburglibrary.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsheridan at vicksburglibrary.org');>
>


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Ann Perrigo, Co-Director
Albion District Library
501 S. Superior Street
Albion, MI 49224
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