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Legal Alert: In Political Fundraising, the Price of Anonymity May Be Rising
Large, anonymous political contributions increased significantly during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles—but the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") may now limit this practice by effectively levying a tax on the anonymity of individual (but not organizational) contributors.
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