U.S.-BASED ALT-RIGHT GROUP REGAINS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS

The Internal Revenue Service has reinstated the tax-exempt status of a non-profit operated by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who’s banned from using mainstream online platforms to raise money. Spencer’s National Policy Institute Inc. lost its tax-exempt status as a non-profit more than a year ago after it failed to file tax returns for three years. Spencer, pictured, said his non-profit “went

through a long process” to get reinstated. PayPal and Stripe banned him and his nonprofit from using their services after a deadly white nationalist rally in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. Losing access to those services has been a bigger obstacle to fundraising than losing tax-exempt status, Spencer said. “Most people who donate don’t actually take the deduction.”