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Spring 2026

5266 Taxation of Exempt Organizations - BUCKLES- 20597

Professor(s): Johnny Buckles (FACULTY)

Credits: 2

Course Areas: Taxation 
Health Law

Time: 1:00p-2:00p  TTH  Location:  

Course Outline: This course is designed (i) to orient students to the laws governing nonprofit organizations; (ii) to familiarize students with the taxation of nonprofit organizations under federal law; and (iii) to introduce students to basic planning techniques for avoiding or minimizing taxes imposed on nonprofit organizations and their managers.

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Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)  The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Prerequisites: Yes  Federal Income Tax (past or concurrent enrollment)

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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Available