June 2000 -
LANDMARK FILES COMPLAINTS WITH IRS AND FEC AGAINST THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION*** As part of its Quality Schools 2000 initiative, Landmark Legal Foundation has compiled substantial information showing that the NEA uses tax-exempt general revenue to influence the election of candidates seeking public office - for which it has neither paid income taxes nor reported to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as required by the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The last several NEA Form 990 federal tax returns, submitted to the IRS under penalty of perjury, disclose no political expenditures whatsoever. The NEA and several of its affiliates have also failed to disclose the full extent of their political activities to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Landmark has filed formal complaints with the IRS, the FEC and the Inspector General of the Treasury Department detailing its extensive findings. Landmark's asking these agencies to initiate comprehensive investigations of the NEA's political activities and expenditures to determine whether it has violated federal tax and campaign laws. Landmark is also asking the IRS to consider whether the NEA's tax-exempt status should be revoked, and whether the IRS and the FEC should impose fines and penalties on the NEA. You can review the complaints by using the navigator bar to the right.
Some of the key findings in Landmark's complaints include:***
If only the NEA would show as much fervor in educating our students.