HFPA Responds After Congresswomen Ask IRS to Investigate Org’s ‘Questionable’ Business Practices
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy EditorTwo congresswomen are asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s tax-exempt status.
Their letter to IRS commissioner Charles Rettig comes after several investigations into the practices of the organization that hands out the Golden Globes.“For more than a year, entertainment and national media outlets have detailed the seemingly corrupt and unacceptable deal making patterns of HFPA raising questions whether the organization solely responsible for awarding the once coveted Golden Globe Award is meeting its IRS section 501(C)(3) demands,” reads the letter sent Monday from Rep.
Joyce Beatty (D–Ohio), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and Rep. Brenda L. Lawrence (D–Mich.), who is vice chair of the House Committee on Appropriations.
The HFPA responded to the letter calling for an investigation, and said in a statement, “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is extremely disappointed to have read about the concerns from Representatives Beatty and Lawrence in the media.
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