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Colleges and Universities Compliance Project: Compliance Questionnaire

The following are answers to some general questions the IRS has received about completing the College and University Questionnaire:

One or more campuses in our university system received the questionnaire. May we respond to the questionnaire using the information for the entire system?
Question 1 asks us to check a box that best describes our college or university, but more than one description applies to our institution. How do we know which one to select?
Our institution does not use a calendar tax year. Several parts of the questionnaire refer to the tax year ending in 2006. This will cause us to use information from our Forms 990 and 990-T that have a 2005 in the upper right-hand corner. Is this correct?
The questionnaire asks for information on faculty and student body size for Fall 2006; however, our tax year ended before Fall 2006. Do we still report our faculty and student size based on Fall 2006?
Both questions 17 and 60 ask about compensation paid by the organization as well as compensation paid by related organizations in calendar year 2006. In determining which persons to list as the five (5) highest paid employees (question 17) or six (6) highest paid officers, directors, trustees and key employees (question 60) of the organization, do we include any compensation paid by related organizations?
Can we add comments, explanations or attachments to the questionnaire?

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Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 2013-03-08