Assessing the political purpose doctrine and the perennial problem of charities and politics
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Assessing the political purpose doctrine and the perennial problem of charities and politics

Editors’ Note: Jane Calderwood Norton and Matthew Harding offer an assessment of the “political purpose doctrine,” which excludes organizations whose main purpose is political from charitable status, and examine how jurisdictions across the common law world have responded to it, based on their recent article in Legal Studies, “Charities and Politics: Where Did We Go … Continue reading