From lojbab Thu Jun 13 01:09:50 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 01:09 EDT From: lojbab (Bob LeChevalier) To: lojban-list Subject: a correction Status: RO Mildly correcting jimc's posting. Yes we want and need your tax-deductible donations. But contributions to voluntary balances, or indeed any money sent to us 'for something' is NOT tax-deductible. Hence we clearly mark on our order forms to distinguish 'donations' (which ARE deductible) from 'balance contributions' which are not (and are refundable, by the way, to the extent they exceed what we send you - that is why we call it a 'balance'. ) If you do make a donation, by the way, we send you a proper end-of-year tax receipt suitable for if the IRS questions it. If you do not get a receipt from us and think you've made a donation instead of a contribution at some point, you should let us know - I have complete records from when we incorporated (and before, but that time doesn't count) as to what money was sent us by whom, and how we allocated it. Hopefully, lots of you, especially those with negative balances, will be comntributing some soon. Our finances are deteriorating again, though, I've taken earlier precautions to keep us from the desperate levels we were at last year. But, excluding the money Jeff P. and I have put in for legal expenses, and my own support for the organization, we have gotten only $1500 in this year, and $1000 of that was donations. Since the last JL issue cost that much alone, things haven;t been so good in the checkbook balance. lojbab