[lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread john boris
Where I coach football we are upgrading our weight room with a Smart TV and also an online program that the players can upload their lifting stats and we can publish them on the TV. So the alum that is spearheading the project asked me about getting some used tables for us to keep in the Weight roo

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Starchy Grant
I've handled this before, although I'm fortunate to have help from someone whose job it is to manage donations paperwork. All we usually do is mail them a receipt in the form of a statement on letterhead saying we've received y item in value of $y. Sometimes the estimate can be a little bit of a

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Mark McCullough
Just checked with someone who used to handle the paperwork for charitable donations. "Thank you for your donation of $enter_description_here". (On letterhead is good). Do not put an estimated dollar value, because that gets into depreciation headaches. Let the donator decide the value, keep

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Rob Jenson
My understanding is that the qualified recipient of a non-cash charitable donation *must not* make any statement or offer advice to the donor on the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the donation. I've worked for non-profits, and this was a very serious concern ... not even with a wink and a nod and a vag

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Starchy Grant
It looks like I was mistaken anyway - we do not provide a dollar value on the receipt but record it internally for our own accounting purposes. -Starchy On 15-12-24 17:40, Rob Jenson wrote: > My understanding is that the qualified recipient of a non-cash charitable > donation *must not* make any

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread john boris
Thanks. A Google search has been useless so far. This is a big help On Thursday, December 24, 2015, Starchy Grant wrote: > I've handled this before, although I'm fortunate to have help from someone > whose job it is to manage donations paperwork. All we usually do is mail > them a receipt in the

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Matthew Barr
If it's over 200? 250? You must put a value on the donation receipt. Nearly every donation I've made has that, including goods to goodwill or the Salvation Army. Matthew (sent from my mobile) > On Dec 24, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Starchy Grant wrote: > > It looks like I was mistaken anyway - we do no

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Guidelines on used elctronic donations

2015-12-24 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Hmmm, I could've gotten a tax deduction for old/new computer stuff I donated to the RedCross once Though not sure how I would've done it since I technically had no income the first part of the year, and was in Canadaliving in my parent's basement...and then moved to the US. (my US taxe