The TEGE Exempt Organizations Council was formed to (i) open and maintain lines of communication between the Tax Exempt & Government Entities Division of the IRS and the practitioner community, (ii) provide the TEGE Division with the thinking of the practitioner community on procedural and systemic matters, (iii) provide practitioners a forum to share their concerns with the IRS regarding both policies and specific tax issues and procedures, and (iv) educate the practitioner community and the exempt organizations community.