Taxexempt Sector Governance Transparency And Oversight Are Critical For Maintaining Public Trust Testimony Before The House Committee On Ways And Means

The tax-exempt sector under section 501(c) of the IRS Code covers over a million-&-a-half tax-exempt entities (TEE) of varying sizes & purposes. Transparency over TEE activities is aided by public access to their annual tax returns. Oversight can help ensure adherence to exempt purposes, protect against abuses, & sustain public support for the sector. This report addressed: (1) the growth of the section 501(c) tax-exempt sector; (2) the role of governance & transparency in ensuring that TEE function effectively & with integrity; (3) IRS's capacity for overseeing the TEE sector, incl. its results & efforts to address critical compliance problems; & (4) states' oversight & their relationship with IRS in overseeing TEE. Charts & tables.

Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues that determine how to most appropriately manage security and justice services. The interplay among security, justice, and public finance is still a relatively unexplored area of development. Such a perspective can help security actors provide more professional, effective, and efficient security and justice services for citizens, while also strengthening systems for accountability. The book is the result of a project undertaken jointly by staff from the World Bank and the United Nations, integrating the disciplines where each institution holds a comparative advantage and a core mandate. The primary audience includes government officials bearing both security and financial responsibilities, staff of international organizations working on public expenditure management and security sector issues, academics, and development practitioners working in an advisory capacity.