A Rescue Kingdom Inc.

“Officer carlos davis and officer cynthia davis are siblings.”

“The organization's process to review form 990 is to have the finance committee review the return before it is filed. Also board of directors are provided with a copy of the return before it is filed.”

“Governing documents available upon request.”

“We received our determination letter on february 11, 2019. We were not aware of the fact that we had to file form 990 since the inception of our entity. A local attorney helped us at no charge to incorporate as a nonprofit in our state and to apply for tax-exempt status with the irs. He did not advice us issues relating to form 990 filing requirement. We keep documents and receipts and share that with our board of directors.we thought that by doing so we were in compliance with the law and believed we were acting responsibly. We had no knowledge of the requirement to file form 990. Our volunteer board of directors is non-professionals. No one has any experience with tax matters. In december 2019 we asked a local cpa to help us with our financial reports. The cpa asked to see our form 990. It was then that we learned of the requirement to file form 990 and that we had missed the deadline for the 2017 and 2018 returns. The cpa had to compile all our receipts and disbursements and spend a considerable time to do that. We than hired a tax specialist to prepare our return. However, covid- 19 further delayed our filing. We believe we have reasonable cause for filing late because we are a small all-volunteer membership organization and honestly did not know about the requirement to file form 990. This was the first time we were required to file this type of return. As soon as we discovered our error, we immediately took action and filed the return before being notified by the irs that it was late, thereby demonstrating that we acted responsibly and in good faith. We believe this demonstrates that we did not willfully neglect our filing requirement. To prevent future late filings we have placed the due date of the form 990 on the calendar of the board of directors, and all board members are now trained on all the annual filing requirements that pertain to the organization. In addition, any penalty and interest would be a serious financial disaster to our organization. Due to covid-19, our income is almost dissapeared overnight. Such penalty and interest will force us to close our doors and stop the wonderful assistance we are providing to animal shelters. We respectfully request that the irs abate all assessed penalties and interest related to our 2017 form 990.”