Woah, Susan, No insurance? Of any kind? You're not really old enough for Medicare already are you? I just met you some 15 years ago. (You might not remember) You're still a spring chick! I agree with not including the client. Just do it! It's just too much information for the customer, unless it's a "friend-type" of client, (of which, I've had lots!) Best, Paul Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org 05/04/2009 05:48 PM Please respond to caut at ptg.org To keithspiano at gmail.com, caut at ptg.org cc Subject Re: [CAUT] [pianotech] Tax help for John Why should a client be involved at all? It seems like needless confusion, with John and his family not knowing why some complete stranger, not a technician, in a distant part of the country, is giving him money. Are we that tax-phobic? I plan to just write a check with "gift" in the bottom "for" line, and send it to his home address. I don't know John's health insurance situation. It certainly makes someone uninsured (like me) think about things. 2 years to go before Medicare age. I hope he has some coverage. Susan Kline At 05:58 PM 5/3/2009, you wrote: >Gifts are not taxable. If you have the person who is writing the >check, specify it is a gift, then there should be no taxes. However, >it should be mentioned, before the tuning, that the tuning comes >with a suggested donation amount. Your name is not to be involved as >this is a direct gift from them to john. Then when they write the >check to John, you have an addresed, stamped envelope for them to >put the check in and of course you mail it for them. > >Be sure to mention that the suggested donation is just that, >suggested. The amount can be more than suggested.... So do this with >your more well to-do clients. If they are in a good mood, it could >pay dividends. > >Of course the client can always refuse but I'm sure there will be >one that will. > >Keith Roberts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090504/d9e9a427/attachment.html>
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