Webinar: UBIT: How US Tax Rules Impact Virtual Exhibits and Sponsorships

When the industry was forced to go completely virtual this year the existing tax regulations around hybrid events stayed firmly in place. Attorney Paula Goedert will break down the current IRS regulation UBIT (unrelated business income tax) and how it applies to forced virtualization of exhibits and whether sponsorship rules offer a path forward to tax exempt revenue.

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the tax complications when going from F2F events to digital
• Understand what qualifies as unrelated business income tax (UBIT)
• Identify how your virtual exhibit revenue and sponsorship revenue may be impacted

Speaker: Paula Goedert
Paula Cozzi Goedert is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and chairs the Associations and Foundations Practice Group. She, along with Barbara Dunn, will serve as the lead attorneys for MPI and MPIF matters. Paula concentrates her practice on the representation of non-profit organizations, including healthcare, business and trade associations, professional academies and societies, and charities and private foundations. She serves as general or lead counsel for many international healthcare associations and non-profits.

Paula has been active in the field of non-profit law for more than 30 years. She is a well known author and lecturer on issues of importance for non-profit organizations and has received awards for her legal service from the Association Forum as well as the Association Foundation Group, and has served on the board of the American Society of Association Executives Foundation.