Jim I greatly appreciate your attitude towards giving. I, too, tip generously, buy cookies, and give in a lot of small ways. Uncle Sam recognizes that we are all generous people, and, as such, has written a tax code to allow us to deduct charitable contribution. So while you're being generous,?why not give your yourself a little break while your at it? But, it being Uncle Sam, there are rules and regulations that we have to follow?to give us that break. I fully agree that John needs help now, and we should all send him what we can as soon as possible. We have until April 15 of next year to figure out how to help ourselves. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> To: caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 2:39 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] [pianotech] Tax help for John Yes Susan! I agree. Just write the check. I give more than 1/10th of my income to "charity" every year, (NOT bragging, it's just what I do) and while this is my personal belief to do this, I must say that I NEVER miss it! Some things we should just do because it's right. If a waitress is good, I tip big. I buy girl scout cookies just to see the smile on their faces. So what if I spend 2 or $300.00 more a year than I could have hoarded, I feel good when I help, or aid in someone's cause. You may not be able to "buy happiness", but my heart sure feels good when I just shut up and do it. Not that I'm a regular "Mother Teresa", but if I can do something, I will! All this whining of taxes and what to do nauseates me. Flamesuit on... Jim Busby Poor, but happy -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:48 PM To: keithspiano at gmail.com; caut at ptg.org 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 the m. > >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/20090505/47e3101c/attachment.html>
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