The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Lobbyists' Labours Lost?

Issues pressed by charity leaders are left out of historic tax bill

By GRANT WILLIAMS

Washington

This month, at what might be the pinnacle of their influence with a president, the nation's charities find themselves essentially shut out of the most important and largest piece of federal tax legislation passed by Congress in two decades.

As President Bush signed into law a $1.35-trillion,...

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