A judge has ruled that the Trump administration must resume collecting donor information from nonprofit groups and give states and the public the chance to weigh in if it tries to halt the practice again. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said in Tuesday's decision that the IRS didn't give proper
HELENA, Mont. — A judge has ruled that the Trump administration must resume collecting donor information from nonprofit groups and give states and the public the chance to weigh in if it tries to halt the practice again.
Morris said the IRS should have given public notice and allowed the public to comment on the rule change before finalizing it. Instead, the tax agency unilaterally changed the policy in what appears to be an attempt to"evade the time-consuming procedures" of the public process that is required by federal law, he wrote.
"When you make big changes to disclosure requirements, states have a real stake in that," Graybill said.
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