Treasury Seeks Permission to Continue Making Nonprofits Do Paperwork
Published Date: 12/15/2025
Notice
Summary
The Treasury Department is updating the paperwork rules for tax-exempt groups like charities and political organizations. They’re asking for public feedback by January 14, 2026, before finalizing changes to forms like the famous Form 990. These updates might tweak what info nonprofits need to share, but won’t add big costs or extra hassle.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Nonprofits: Annual Form 990 Reporting
If you run a tax-exempt nonprofit, you must prepare and submit the Form 990 series and related schedules each year. The Treasury estimates 1,729,800 respondents, with an average time per response of 43 hours and 38 minutes and total annual burden of 75,470,000 hours.
Nationwide Paperwork Cost Increase
The IRS estimates the total annual monetized burden for the Form 990 package at $6,154,300,000, which includes $4,090,800,000 in monetized time and $2,063,500,000 in out-of-pocket costs for fiscal year 2026. The package shows a program-change increase of 18,500 respondents, 2,030,000 additional hours, and $303,900,000 in additional total monetized burden compared with fiscal year 2025.
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