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The federal government is taking a closer look at privately-owned art museums, examining whether these are created purely for the tax benefits of the founders.
US Senator Orrin Hatch, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, penned 11 letters delivered to 11 museums, pointing out that some of these institutions may deliver negligible value to the public while gaining significant tax benefits to donors.
Under US tax laws, art donors may deduct the fair-market value of their art donations from their taxes when donated to charitable organizations with art-related missions. However, donors cannot directly profit from their own institutions’ actions.
The Finance Committee’s letter asks museum foundations to provide, among other items, the number of hours that the museum is open to the public, the total number of visitors received, donors’ identities and associations to the museum, as well as a list of directors, trustees or donors that have access to the museum after hours. Click here to view a redacted copy of one of the letters.
Those contacted include museums in Florida, Texas Vermont, California and Washington, DC.
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Overview of the main provisions of the Competition Law, and discussion of the enforcement regime and recent enforcement trends.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) recently ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz & Ors v. Switzerland (Application No. 53600/20) that Switzerland had breached the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) by not taking sufficient action against climate change. In particular, it found a breach of the right to respect for private and family life contained in Article 8 of the Convention, based on Switzerland’s failure to mitigate the impact of climate change on the lives, health, well-being and quality of life of its citizens. It also ruled that Switzerland had breached the right to a fair trial in terms of Article 6, in that the domestic courts failed to examine the merits of the applicants’ complaints, including the scientific evidence. In this article we consider the key features of this landmark judgment, which has wide ramifications for Member States of the Convention.
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