United States. TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OF DURARY OF CONGRELS JUN - 5 1986 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 57-664 O NOVEMBER 1, 1985 Serial 99-59 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1986 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois, Chairman SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida J.J. PICKLE, Texas CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York RICHARD A. GEPHARDT, Missouri ROBERT T. MATSUI, California JOHN J. DUNCAN, Tennessee GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan W. HENSON MOORE, Louisiana South Carolina WILLIAM M. THOMAS, California RAYMOND J. MCGRATH, New York HAL DAUB, Nebraska JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 Internal Revenue Service, Hon. Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue; John Cummings, Disclosure Litigation Division; Robert Brauer, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Employee Plans and Exempt Orga- nizations; and Tom E. Persky, Assistant to the Commissioner (Legislative John William Crews, Esq., Crews, Hancock & Dunn, on behalf of Prince American Jewish Committee, Samuel Rabinove, letter and statement. William J. Brown, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, statement.... Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Norman J. Chachkin and Robert H. Kapp, joint statement... Hon. Mickey Leland, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, APPENDIXES Appendix I. Response of Commissioner of Internal Revenue to questions posed Appendix II. Prince Edward School Foundation application file Appendix III. IRS brief filed in Virginia Education Fund v. Commissioner of |