LDS Church lobbying for tax cut (Mormon Choir Joins Big Bird to Lobby For GOP Proposed Tax Break Measure)
Salt Lake Tribune (Wall Street Journal) 30Jul99 C6
By Greg Hitt: Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- A proposed $792 billion tax-cut has drawn the lobbying efforts of the LDS Church along with a number of other tax-exempt groups, in an effort to make sure the measure includes a $110 million provision benefiting the for-profit entities of tax-exempt organizations. The Church has joined a coalition that includes the Children's Television Workshop, the PGA Tour and other generally tax-exempt organizations.

The provision, which would cost the government $110 million over 10 years, seeks to relieve the tax-exempt organizations from a 1997 provision meant to curb abusive transactions between the tax-exempt organizations and their for-profit subsidiaries. The coalition of tax-exempt groups believes that the provision is this wide in error, "The net was cast too broadly," said Daniel Victor, general counsel for the Children's Television Workshop.