The IRS this week mailed postcards to more than four million small businesses and tax-exempt organizations to make them aware of the tax credits, which goes into effect this year, of the recently enacted small business health care tax credit. 

MSAE staff and volunteers just returned from a successful Fly-In coordinated by ASAE this past Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23rd and 24th. MSAE president Cheryl Ronk, CAE was accompanied by members Rochelle Black, Oakland University; Robert Dumont, Tooling, Manufacturing & Technologies Association; Christine Jourdain, American Council of Snowmobile Associations and Bonnie Bonchiak, Michigan Business & Professional Association.

Associations and their members may be dangerously unprepared for one of the fastest-growing crimes in America: identity theft and information security. Here are 10 fallacies that no one is talking about.

MSAE is pleased to partner with the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Organization Management (IOM) in offering partial scholarships for new enrollees that are MSAE members. The Institute program provides management and leadership training for association, chamber, and nonprofit professionals. The IOM curriculum consists of four one-week sessions. Most participants choose to attend one session per year over a four-year period at a consistent location.

Recently, the IRS updated its priority guidance plan for 2009-2010, which gives tax-exempt organizations some indication of where the IRS intends to focus its efforts over the coming year.

An exempt organization that does not file its required annual information form 990 for three consecutive years automatically loses its tax-exempt status. 2009 was the third year that the law has been in effect and many exempt organizations which have failed to file during that period will have their exempt status revoked this year, unless the IRS postpones the revocation program. This is especially important for affiliates of larger organizations.