Re: [AGA-mcm] Required statement on the AGA site

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, S. Hieber wrote:

> Good question. Wish I had thought of it.

> I think any place where we are accepting money counts as a
> solicitation. For the web site, is it possible to put that
> statement on the shopping cart and on the "if paying by
> check" place on the bookstore page? I think that covers us
> for all website payments.

We don't have that option.  The "Shopping Cart" is controlled by PayPal, 
not us.  And since we've got little "Add to Cart" links everywhere, we 
can't really put them on every page (or CAN we?).  The closest I can get 
to that is to put it on the page that pops up AFTER you complete the 
purchase (that has the survey form for Cheryl).

  - Erik

> The only other place would be the brouchures since we
> accept bring money in that way too. We can at least make
> the change for the next time we get some printed and for
> any electronic copies of the brochure that we give out.
>
> I don't think this will be a big issue. Roger Miller is the
> only one that ever asked me about "deductibility".
>
> sh
>
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> > Which page? Organizational info?  Or front?
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, S. Hieber wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Erik, what more could you want to hear about on
> > April
> > > 15 than tax matters?
> > >
> > > Under the Federal Tax Code, as an organization
> > receognized
> > > under 501(c)4 of the Tax Code, we must include a
> > > conspicuous statement accompanying *any* solicitation
> > for
> > > money stating that payments are not deductible. I have
> > > drafted the following text for the website, which
> > includes
> > > the required language.
> > >
> > > "The AGA is incorporated and recognized under the laws
> > of
> > > Massachussets as a tax-exempt, non-profit organization.
> > The
> > > Federal government recognizes the AGA as a tax-exempt
> > > non-profit organization. Payments to the AGA are not
> > > deductible as charitable contributions for Federal
> > income
> > > tax purposes."
> > >
> > > If you folks think this is too much (I tend to think,
> > the
> > > less said the better but what the heck), then just use
> > the
> > > last sentence, which is required.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, since we just printed brouchures, the
> > > brochures also should state, "Payments to the AGA are
> > not
> > > deductible as charitable contributions for Federal
> > income
> > > tax purposes." Cheryl, maybe you can make the change in
> > the
> > > Adobe file.
> > >
> > > Btw, for you trivia folks, item 1) it is because we are
> > > recognized under 501(c)4 and not 501(c)3 that our
> > > recognition can go back to date of incorporation even
> > > though the application was filed after the deadline.
> > >
> > > Trivia item 2) a horticultural society is mentioned as
> > a
> > > paradigm for a 501(c)4 organization.
> > >
> > > sh
> > >
> > >
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