Hundreds of NEA-AFT Affiliates Lose Tax-Exempt Status
The Internal Revenue Service published a list of 275,000 nonprofit organizations that have lost their tax-exempt status due to a failure to file the required paperwork for at least three years. Hundreds of these organizations are local affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
The Newark Star-Ledger reports at least 39 local chapters of the New Jersey Education Association are on the list. A union spokesman said they may be defunct, merged or delinquent with paperwork. NJEA “is currently trying to determine the status of each one.”
EIA reported last August that 475 teacher union affiliates were in danger of losing their status, and posted a list of them, culled from the 340,000 nonprofits on the IRS roster. I know for certain at least one state affiliate used the information to clear up the problem.