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IRS (US) v Charities Registration Board (NZ)
Flush Kiwi charities failing to pay out
NZ Herald 18 May 2013 New Zealand charities not required to give money back to the community are exaggerating the gap between the “haves and the have-nots”, critics say. Under current law, private schools, fee-charging hospitals and food giants reap the rewards of tax relief with no obligation to donate some of their profits. The Government [...]
Anti-gay marriage ad complaints thrown out
ONE News 19 May 2013 The advertising watchdog has thrown out complaints made against anti-gay marriage advertisements published by Family First. The advertisements titled “21 great reasons to keep marriage as is” and “If you vote to change ‘marriage’ we will vote to change you” were published in the lead up to the passing of [...]
Coming out the closet
IRS targets conservative groups
Yahoo News 16 May 2013 People on the right and left are appalled by the IRS’s inappropriate targeting of Tea Party non-profits. The IRS ”demanded names of board members, copies of meeting minutes and résumés, details of community organizing efforts,” The Washington Post‘s Josh Hicks and Kimberly Kindy report, not to mention asked some groups for donors and [...]
Labour questions adequacy of CYF
3 News 15 May 2013 Labour is questioning whether Child Youth and Family is adequately funded, following revelations about a neglect case in Lower Hutt. MP Jacinda Ardern says four children under five, who were taken from their parents after being found dirty and malnourished, ended up back at the family home just days later. [...]
CYF admits losing neglected chlidren
3 News 15 May 2013 Child Youth and Family has been forced to admit it didn’t intervene in a case of severe child neglect because it lost the family. CYF won’t say how many times it assessed the seriously malnourished children before sending them back to their parents. This incident however is far from isolated, [...]
Denise Roche: Charities as advocates – discussion needed
NZ Herald 14 May 2013 The Herald‘s editorial about the deregistration of Family First as a charity seems confused. Registration with the Department of Internal Affairs does not confer tax deductibility – that is determined, quite properly, by Inland Revenue. What it does is confer obligations in reporting to the charities department of the Department [...]
What do the children say?
MercatorNet, Robert Oscar Lopez, 12 May 2013 The children of same-sex couples normally love the people who raised them. But many of them still have reservations about same-sex marriage. During the oral arguments about Proposition 8, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to children being raised by same-sex couples. Since I was one of those children—from ages [...]
