IRS Tax Writeoff

[David Ilvedson]

Thanks Israel...I will

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 1/17/2008 8:34:21 PM
Subject: Re: IRS Tax Writeoff


>Folks,

>While there is some good advice being posted on this topic, I have to 
>say that if someone is going to do appraisals of big-ticket items 
>like pianos for donations, they should probably go to a more reliable 
>source of information than this list. In the high-tech world there is 
>an expression that is used when folks unnecessarily try to figure 
>things out on their own: RTFM. It stands for "Read The FXXXXXXX 
>Manual". Thew manual in this case is IRS Publication 561 - 
>Determining The Value of Donated Property. It tells you who is a 
>qualified appraiser, how to assign value to different kinds of 
>property and everything else you need to know. If you are going to 
>take people's money for appraising their pianos for the purpose of 
>tax deduction, you owe it to them to at least skim through this 
>publication. You can find it at:
>http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p561.pdf

>Israel Stein