December 14, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Some I.R.S. agents are running into problems evaluating applications for charity status from groups that rely heavily on the Internet to carry out their missions.
“We’re finding a lot of techies out there who come in and want to run an educational Web site, and they’ve loaded up their applications with so much jargon that we basically have to sit down with a glossary and decipher them,” I.R.S. official Robert C. Harper told charity lawyers at the Washington legal conference.
“If you can’t understand what your client is saying to you,” said Mr. Harper, chances are “we’re going to have to ask you to put it in plainer language.”
