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You may direct technical and procedural questions concerning charities and other nonprofit organizations, including questions about your tax-exempt status and tax liability, to the IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Customer Account Services at 877-829-5500 (toll-free number).

How to claim exempt status on a W-4. To claim an exemption, you must complete only lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and sign the form to validate it. (In Box 7, write “EXEMPT”. Writing this will guarantee that withholdings are not taken from your future paychecks.)

How to claim exempt status on a W-4. To claim an exemption, you must complete only lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and sign the form to validate it. (In Box 7, write “EXEMPT”. Writing this will guarantee that withholdings are not taken from your future paychecks.)

Applications for nonprofit status must be submitted online to the IRS. If an organization is eligible to apply for nonprofit status with Form 1023-EZ, the process can take as little as four weeks. For those who must file Form 1023, the process could take up to six months or longer.

In general, applications are processed in the order received by the IRS. Sometimes, however, the IRS will work a case outside the regular order. For expedited processing to be granted, however, there must be a compelling reason to process the case ahead of others.

After you submit your application If you submitted your application before the date indicated in the chart on that page and haven't been contacted, you can call the toll-free Customer Account Services number at 877-829-5500 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5p.m. (local time), to check on the status.

As the name suggests, Form 1023-EZ is easier to complete, and the rate of approval is very high, but there may be disadvantages to using this form. The average processing time for Form 1023-EZ is about 2-4 weeks. By contrast, Form 1023 can take between 3 and 6 months for processing, and it could take up to a year.

To apply for recognition by the IRS of exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Code, use a Form 1023-series application. The application must be submitted electronically on Pay.gov and must, including the appropriate user fee.