The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, 5th Edition

About the Author

BRUCE R. HOPKINS is a senior partner in the law firm of Polsinelli PC, practicing in the firm's Kansas City office. He specializes in the representation of charitable and other nonprofit organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of law matters involving tax-exempt organizations, with emphasis on charitable giving (including planned giving), the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, governance and the law, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, fundraising law issues, and Internet communications developments.

Mr. Hopkins served as chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; chair, Section Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and president, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of Wiley's Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Fifth Edition, he is the author of The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Tenth Edition; Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries; Tax-Exempt Organizations ...