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“Organizations that publish written news articles, including online articles, should be able to qualify for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status if they meet the usual limits for charitable nonprofits.”
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“Congress should be encouraged to work with news outlets and other interested groups on ways to keep local print and digital news strong, without setting who must participate or what actions Congress should take.”
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“Federal, state, and local governments should be encouraged to do what they can to help strong local print and digital news sources keep operating, without creating funding, programs, mandates, or legal job tasks by itself.”
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“People should be able to claim a temporary federal tax credit for part of the cost of qualifying local newspaper subscriptions. Donors to qualifying nonprofit local news outlets should be able to choose that credit instead of a charitable deduction for the same payment.”
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“The IRS should have to approve or deny a qualifying written-news organization's 501(c)(3) application within 12 months after the organization files the required notice.”
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“Eligible local newspaper publishers should be able to reduce their Social Security payroll taxes for wages paid to local news journalists. The credit should count only wages up to a quarterly cap for journalists who do enough local news work, and should not be available to government employers.”
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“Local news tax benefits should be limited to print or digital outlets that mainly publish original local news, serve a local or regional community, have at least one local journalist living there, stay under the employee limit, have a two-year local news record, and make publishing their main work if they are nonprofits.”
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“Employers claiming the local reporter wage credit should face checks to prevent double dipping, related-company workarounds, improper payroll-provider claims, and staffing arrangements used to get around credit limits, with the IRS allowed five years to review claims.”
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“Qualifying nonprofit news organizations should not owe unrelated business income tax on payments they receive for advertisements in their news publications.”
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“Local newspapers should qualify only if they mainly produce original local or regional news, employ at least one full-time journalist who lives in the community, stay under the 750-employee limit, and are not too controlled or funded by certain tax-exempt or political organizations.”
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“Local newspaper tax benefits should be limited to outlets that mainly publish original local or regional news, have at least one full-time reporter who lives in the covered community, have no more than 750 employees, and are not too closely tied to certain political or tax-exempt organizations.”
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“Federal general fund money should be transferred into the Social Security trust funds to replace payroll tax revenue lost when publishers claim the journalist wage credit.”
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“The small business local media advertising credit and the local journalist wage credit should both end after five years unless Congress later extends or changes them.”
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