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Posted by Dick Adams on June 14, 2008, 3:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options > rdad...@panix.com (Dick Adams) wrote:
>>>> My point is that upon sanctioning a competition, the BJCP
>>>> solicits volunteer judges for the event and that blanket
>>>> solicitation is the major benefit of BJCP sanctioning.
>>> Can you get the BJCP to send you a letter thanking you for
>>> volunteering to judge the competition on their behalf?
>> If that were the case, this dialogue would not be necessary.
>> Since there are over 3,000 BJCP members, such a mailing
>> would be cost prohibitive given gross revenues of less than
>> $20,000/yr.
> Not if you'd write the letter yourself, send it to whoever
> would sign such a thing and include SASE for them to send
> it back ...
That would mean 1,000 plus letters for a volunteer to sign
over a three month period.
It would be much more efficient to have a Circular 230
preparer write an opinion letter on the deductibility.
Which brings us back to my original question: Is a
service in support of a 501(c)(3) to a non-qualifying
organization equivalent to a service to the 501(c)(3)?
Searching for an analogous situation, I have come up with
a member of the Civil Air Patrol drives 120 miles once
a month to review flight and maintenance logs and to
inspect private aircraft at a privately owned airport.
He/she does so because these airports pay a fee to be
sanctioned by CAP and CAP advertises to its members
that these airports need reviewers and inspectors. Is
the CAP member entitled to Schedule A Charitable deduction
for the mileage?
Another example would be a Nurse-Practitioner volunteering
time at a not-for-profit clinic that is not a qualifying
organization. There are numerous not-for-profits that are
not qualifying organizations. Are the Nurse's travel
expenses deductible.
Do me a favor and presume the facts are correct and deal
with the questions.
Dick
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