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1996

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Ball Four: The Irs Walks The Kansas City Royals, Myreon Sony Hodur Jan 1996

Ball Four: The Irs Walks The Kansas City Royals, Myreon Sony Hodur

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

The IRS will grant deductions for money spent on charitable purposes. One such purpose is lessening the burdens of governments. In 1993 the IRS granted a deduction worth almost $100 million to the estate of Ewing M. Kauffman for his donation of the Kansas City Royals baseball team to a local community foundation under a "Succession Plan." That arrangement would give local buyers preference in bidding to purchase the team from the foundation. The IRS found that the Succession Plan lessened the burden of government insofar as it relieved Kansas City area governments of their burden in keeping the franchise …