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Brief History of IRS The roots of IRS go back to the Civil War when President Lincoln and Congress, in 1862, created the position of commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacted an income tax to pay war expenses.

A Brief History America's tax exemption for charities, however, can be traced to the English Statute of Charitable Uses of 1601. Since our country's founding, churches have been tax-exempt from federal taxes, but it wasn't until 1894 (Tariff Act) that it became official.

The IRS is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. In fiscal year 2020, the IRS collected almost $3.5 trillion in revenue and processed more than 240 million tax returns. The IRS spent just 35 cents for each $100 it collected in FY 2020.

What is UBTI? Unrelated business taxable income is income earned by a tax-exempt entity, such as an IRA, that is not related to the exempt purpose of the tax-exempt entity. The exempt purpose of an IRA is to provide for the retirement of the IRA holder.

Organizations that were dedicated to charitable purposes were not required to pay the federal income tax. The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894: established the requirements for the tax-exempt status for charitable organizations.

Two common usages of Revenue Procedure 2005-14 are when a taxpayer converts their Primary Residence into an “Investment Property”, or when a taxpayer treats a portion of a property as their Primary Residence and the remainder as an “Investment”.

In 1950, Congress amended the tax law to introduce the concept of unrelated business income. Congress enacted the law because it was concerned about nonprofit organizations having an unfair advantage competing in the same activities as for-profit organizations.