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Kevin Shortill is resident in the Washington, DC, office. He advises tax-exempt and not-for-profit organizations on a wide variety of tax and corporate matters, including grant-making, internet-related activities, public solicitation (including the use of raffles and auctions to raise funds), lobbying and legislative activities, the lobbying disallowance rules, utilizing for-profit subsidiaries, unrelated business income (UBIT), conducting activities abroad and sales and merchandising, in addition to corporate governance matters specific to tax-exempt entities, such as advice in connection with state laws seeking to “extend Sarbanes-Oxley” to not-for-profit entities. His experience also includes counseling and advising high net worth individuals with regard to Federal and state tax aspects of charitable and planned giving.
Representative Matters
- Mr. Shortill recently advised a prominent, international economic institute in connection with forming a US affiliate for a proposed global institute for non-profit governance.
- Mr. Shortill advised a pre-eminent, not-for-profit scientific research organization on the possible tax consequences of monetizing research results from some of its government sponsored research.
- Mr. Shortill recently gave advice on the composition of an audit committee of the Board of Directors of a not-for-profit medical research organization subject to the new California Nonprofit Integrity Act.
Previous Experience
- Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organizations Rulings Division (1994-1996)
Memberships and Affiliations
- The Intellectual Property/Internet Committee of the American Bar Association's Exempt Organizations Subcommittee, Chair
Publications and Speeches
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