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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

When it comes to racial and economic justice and government taxation, federal policy tends to get the most attention. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging shifting the tax burden from the well-to-do to the least well off.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. The reason we don’t have large-scale mutualism popping off everywhere is not that people don’t want it. Rather, policy prevents it in often subtle ways.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Taxation with Representation of Washington , which held that the Section 501c3 prohibition of substantial lobbying was constitutional, concluding that an organization’s right to speak need not be subsidized. See Regan v.

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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

While many countries including Canada, Italy, and South Korea have established rules governing social cooperatives, including having supportive policies such as preferential procurement rules, favorable taxation regimes, and dedicated grants, in the United States, the concept of social cooperatives has not yet been formally recognized.

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Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025

The NonProfit Times

The threat of increased taxation feels more real than in decades, given how the sector has been scrutinized by Congress lately. Tax code changes that squeeze nonprofits for revenue are on the table once again in 2025. Prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have floated broadly targeting tax-exempts to raise federal funds.

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

Tariffs are essentially a consumption tax, and consumption as a share of income tends to fall as incomes rise.”

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Equitable Taxation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paolo de Renzio An excerpt from A Taxing Journey on ways civic actors can help close country-level tax loopholes