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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Tax Status Msg# 949843
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Joe:
In considering court opinions, it is a poor practice to extract words, phrases, or sentences from an opinion to make a point. What you highlighted is not the opinion, but extracted from the Background of the opinion among many other details of OPA. Go to the actual discussion in the opinion and find a basis, if you can, that indicates that physical location was relevant to the decision. Also, you have copied the Tax Court opinion. The case was appealed to the 4th Federal Circuit. That is the relevant opinion. In my opinion, the case was correctly decided against OPA at both courts Jim Trummel |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: That case report contains the text below. Reading this makes me inclined to give more support to the notion that the parking was taxable because it was in a different community than the HOA itself, some eight miles away. Surely this distinction is one OPA should ask about and confirm one way or the other before we categorically state the same taxable issue would apply on profits made on business amenities within the primary community area of the association.. a homeowners association exempt from tax under sec. 501(c)(4), I.R.C., operated two parking lots and a beach club eight miles from the area in which its members lived. The parking lots and the primary beach club facilities were accessible only to the association's members and their guests. The association did not report its net income from the parking lot and beach club activities as unrelated business taxable income on its tax returns for 2003 and 2004. R issued a notice of deficiency determining that the net income was subject to the unrelated business income tax because the operation of the parking lots and the beach club is not substantially related to the promotion of community welfare (the purpose constituting the basis of the Association's exemption under sec. 501, I.R.C., see secs. 1.501(c)(4)-1(a)(2), 1.513-1(a), (d)(1), Income Tax Regs.) and because the revenue received from operating the parking lots is not rent from real property under sec. 512(b), I.R.C. Held: The operation of the parking lots and the beach club is not substantially related to the promotion of community welfare because the facilities are not open to the general public. |
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