On August 15, 2008, the Internal Revenue Service
("Service") publicly released a redacted final adverse
determination letter (PLR 200833022 (May 21, 2008)) denying Section
501(c)(3) status to a nonprofit organization ("M")
created to provide student housing for colleges and universities
through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds. The Service's denial
of exempt status to M was based on the failure of M to establish
that its operations furthered a charitable purpose and not a
commercial trade or business....
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Baker Tilly recently had the honor of directing an initiative on behalf of the Local Government Institute on innovative approaches to government transformation.
Amendments to the Finnish public procurement legislation came into force on 1 June 2010. The new legislative package includes doubling of the national thresholds values that determine the applicability of the Finnish Act on Public Contracts and also the transposition of the Remedies Directive 2007/66/EC into national legislation.
The Bribery Act 2010, which received Royal Assent on 8th April, was expected to enter into force before the end of this year; however, it has now been announced that it will not be implemented until April 2011.
A special session of the Florida Legislature is scheduled to begin on July 20, 2010. Governor Charlie Crist called the special session for the limited purpose of putting a constitutional amendment to ban offshore drilling in Florida waters on the November general election ballot.
The equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) can be traced back to a pilot project that started in 1992 (slightly worrying news for proponents of public private partnerships (PPP), who have just seen the first draft of the regulations on PPP pilot projects).
In terms of infrastructure delivery, governments across the globe face two main challenges. The first is well known and has been widely debated – the need to cut the massive fiscal deficits accumulated in part because of the extraordinary measures they took to stabilise the financial system and prevent the Great Recession turning into a new Great Depression.
The Ministry of Justice has today announced that the offences created by the Bribery Act 2010, including the new corporate offence, will all come into force together in April 2011.
What is political termination? What are the criteria to distinguish between the political termination and the termination of employment of public officers who fill non-political positions? How lawful is the political termination without cause? Do labor law restrictions related to the termination of public office (including being on sick leave, on vacation, etc.) apply to political termination?
On June 25, 2010, the Administration issued the long-awaited regulations implementing the changes from the last Wassenaar Plenary Session and seeking to reduce the regulatory burden on exporters of encryption products under the ENC license exception.
