Disclosure & Transparency

The Internal Revenue Service can do the nation a service on this Tax Day by moving ahead with a re-write of proposed rules regulating the political activity of non-profit social welfare organizations, Common Cause said today.

$2.8 million and counting! That’s how much money outside groups like SuperPACs have spent to support or oppose Boston mayoral candidates Martin Walsh and John Connolly.

We're pleased that the IRS is committed to clarifying the rules for candidate-related political activity by social welfare organizations. Revisions to the originally proposed rules were certainly in order and so we view today’s development as a positive step