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IRS determined that The Project S.T.E.P. is a tax exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 501(c)3. Donors can deduct contributions they make to The Project S.T.E.P. under IRC Section 170.

The Project S.T.E.P. is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises,  transfers or gifts under Section. 2055, 2106, or 2522. 

Human Trafficking is a crime that involves exploiting a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent re-authorizations define human trafficking as:

1. Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
2. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)).