title: Contribution retribution. Health system, CEO must pay excise taxes after pressuring workers to help fund state association's PAC through payroll deductions.
abstract: The IRS wants not-for-profit health systems to remember to keep their distance from politics--it's taxing the payroll contributions at one system that went to a state hospital association's PAC. Kenneth Robbins, left, says hospitals should always be conscious of activities that could jeopardize their tax-exempt status. "It's an issue we've been concerned with as long as I can remember," he says.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011057:Politics; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D019464:Tax Exemption / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States