Is your church a cult?

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Is your church a cult?
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Fri, 02-27-2009 - 7:11pm

I was reading

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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:24pm
You don't report the ersatz purses your mom gives you to the IRS? : O (why does that look like a chimp and not like outrage?).
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:26pm
Actually, even the name of the church and the location(s) would be adequate. I think I asked her at least 5 times.
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:34pm

Not in all cities.


But you're absolutely correct.

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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:36pm
Are we talking my 12 year old or my 16 year old? Because there might be a difference. If my 16 year old were interested in going to a Bible Study with some new friends that I was OK with, I'd say sure, unless it was some kind of dodgy organization. If it were my 12 year old, no, he doesn't go out alone with older teens.
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:38pm
No, but the people I regift them to? Better declare them on their taxes, or I will surely report them them to the IRS. Or have forlinis do it for me.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:40pm
Hey! I wanna chopper. There is a hardened criminal here who had his friends bust him out of jail almost 10 years ago with a chopper. He hid a few years, they caught him, stuck him back in jail, yadda-yadda. Well, a few weeks ago, he did it again, lol. http://www.pr-inside.com/greek-chopper-fugitives-receive-more-r1107809.htm
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:41pm
You're not following along. The tickets to events, etc game from personal gifts. The mugs, candles, and calendars came from organizations such as the kids' school. The de minimus rule has nothing to do with offsetting against deductions. The de minimis rule says that you do not have to report as income (nor to employers have to report as wages) small, infrequent gifts that are not intended as compensation but are rather used as incentives or rewards. Some of the things that have counted as "non-reportable under de minimis" are the value of a five, ten, or fifteen year pin given to an employee or a volunteer, a turkey at the holidays, and tickets to a sporting event. The de minimis rule specifically excludes cash or cash equivalents such as gift cards.
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Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:42pm

No, sorry. The law is very clear on this. The cash equivalent of time volunteered to an organization is NOT tax deductible.

Your argument seems to be falling apart.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
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Registered: 02-06-2009
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:46pm

Nonprofits never do that sort of thing.

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Registered: 02-22-2007
Wed, 03-11-2009 - 6:51pm

And next you will bring up the United Way....There are examples of corruption and fiscal mismanagement in the corporate world too, but I would hesitate to paint all private companies with the same overly-wide brush.

Does anyone else smell herring?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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