The IRS has not issued any guidance on what constitutes political intervention on blogs sponsored by tax-exempt organizations (EO). Apparently, EO’s will have to wait a while longer to receive such guidance.

At an American Bar Association EO political subcommittee meeting on May 8 in Washington, DC, Judy Kindell, senior technical adviser to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director of exempt organizations, commented on the IRS’ lack of guidance regarding blogs. Tax Notes($$) reported on Kindell's comments.

Kindell told the subcommittee that the agency needs to conduct more research before issuing guidance on prohibited political activities in blog postings, according to Tax Notes.

Kindell also said that the IRS’ Tax-Exempt and Government Entities Division cannot allow EO’s to bypass the rules, but the Division also "can’t be so unrealistic as to say that EO’s must take responsibility for any comments that are posted to their web sites," according to Tax Notes. She said that blog issues will be handled on an individual case basis, which is consistent with the agency’s "facts and circumstances" approach in determining when an EO has engaged in prohibited political intervention.