What is the difference between general nonprofit status and church nonprofit status with the IRS?
• You can obtain tax-exempt status for a nonprofit organization on the basis of a future plan. This is not true of church status. You must have a current operating church to obtain church status. Churches do not file any tax returns. A very small church, and/or one made up mostly of family members, may obtain 501(c)(3) status as a general nonprofit until it is large enough to qualify as a church. • 17. What about the IRS User Fee? • The IRS charges a $300 or $750 User Fee to process your application. If your projected annual gross income for your first three years of operation (or up to four past years of operation if Plan B) is under $10,000 per year, then the $300 user fee applies to you. If it’s over $10,000 per year, then the $750 user fee applies. • 18. What about sending our Questionnaires back to you? • We e-mail you each Questionnaire as an MS Word documents. After saving the document, you type the answers right on the document and send us a reply e-mail, attaching the document
