’ALT-RIGHT’ GROUP REGAINS IRS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS

The Internal Revenue Service has reinstated the tax-exempt status of a non-profit operated by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who has been banned from using mainstream online platforms to raise money. Spencer’s National Policy Institute Inc. automatically lost its tax-exempt status as a non-profit more than a year ago after it failed to file tax returns for three consecutive years. Spencer said his non-profit “went through a long process” to get reinstated. It’s a “nice, small victory” after getting “de-platformed” by online payment processors, he said. PayPal and Stripe banned him and his non-profit from using their services after a deadly white nationalist rally in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.