Nonprofit Tax Help/Video-Based Course: How to Prepare IRS Form 1023-EZ Tax-Exempt Application

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Video-Based Course: How to Prepare IRS Form 1023-EZ Tax-Exempt Application

  • Course
  • 7 Lessons

IRS Form 1023-EZ looks simple enough for a do-it-yourself project. But it isn't, unless you learn how to do it properly. Using video, I'll teach you how to prepare and file the 1023-EZ properly so you can avoid costly mistakes.

Contents

Introduction and Review Form Instructions

What to expect from this course and what's important in the IRS Form 1023-EZ instructions.

Video Lesson: Introduction and Review of Form Instructions
  • 8 mins
  • 159 MB
PDF: Form 1023-EZ Instructions (January 2025) & Eligibility Worksheet
  • 1010 KB

Understand and Complete the Eligibility Checklist

The IRS wants to make sure you don't try to use Form 1023-EZ to apply for tax-exempt status unless your organization is eligible to use the form. So it is necessary to complete the very helpful eligibility checklist provided by the IRS. In this video lesson I go over the entire checklist and explain what everything means so you don't have to look everything up.

Video Lesson: Understand and Complete the Eligibility Worksheet (Revised Jan 2025)
  • 22 mins
  • 113 MB

Detailed Walk-Through of Form 1023-EZ

In this video lesson I explain how to get a PDF copy of the 1023-EZ so you can print it and fill it out by hand before you log in to the Pay.gov website and prepare the real thing. The next lesson after this is where I actually log into pay.gov and fill out the 1023-EZ online. Both lessons are very similar, but this lesson has more detail

Video Lesson: Walk through the 1023-EZ PDF, Line by Line.
  • 38 mins
  • 260 MB

Access and Fill Out the Online IRS Form 1023-EZ

In this video lesson I walk you through filling out the online Form 1023-EZ at the Pay.gov website. This lesson is not quite as detailed as the previous walk-through of the PDF form, but it shows you how the online form works. Still lots of detail and tips.

Video lesson: Filling out the 1023-EZ online step-by-step
  • 27 mins
  • 160 MB

Understanding IRS Revenue Procedure 2014-11 for Revoked Nonprofits Seeking Reinstatements

Here I give a fairly brief explanation of this critical Revenue Procedure published by the IRS to explain the reinstatement procedures available to nonprofits whose tax-exempt status was revoked for failure to file an annual return or notice for three consecutive years. I explain which procedures can be used with Form 1023-EZ.

Video Lesson: What 1023-EZ Filers Need to Know about Rev Proc 2014-11
  • 11 mins
  • 99.8 MB
PDF: IRS Revenue Procedure 2014-11.pdf
  • 48.3 KB