California bill would revoke tax-exempt status of nonprofits that supported Jan. 6 attack

Bill states that if the office of the Attorney General determines that a nonprofit has engaged or incited one of these acts, it would be required to notify the Franchise Tax Board, which would then revoke their California tax-exempt status.

Nonprofit organizations that participated or aided in the Jan. 6, 2020 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol or support future attempts to overthrow a democratically elected government would lose their California tax-exempt status under the full text of a first-in-the-nation bill introduced by a state lawmaker on Thursday.

The “No Tax Exemption for Insurrection Act,” introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would allow a nonprofit organization’s tax-exempt status to be revoked if the state’s Attorney General determines the organization has “actively engaged in, or incited the active engagement in, acts or conspiracies defined as criminal under specified federal law.”

According to Wiener’s office, this includes acts such as treason, insurrection, seditious conspiracy or advocating for an overthrow of the government or the government of any State…. (Excerpt from Just the News)