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(...) This is intriguing. Not to go too far off-topic, but would turning LUGNET non-profit make our donations (at least for those of us in the United States) in the future tax-deductible? Because if so, that's very, very cool. I'm not sure where the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) I'm no tax expert, let alone a lawyer. But I'm not sure that Lugnet would fit under the 501(c)(3) definition -- a "charitable, educational, religious, literary, or scientific". And given that words in legalese don't mean what they mean in (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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You don't think Lugnet is edumacational? ;-) I certainly do. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) Well, that's where the legal-words thing comes in. Maybe that category is actually broad enough to include us -- or could be, simply with the addition of a new mission statement. But maybe it has to be more focused than that. Maybe it fits (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) LUGNET can't become a 501(c)3 organization because it doesn't provide its services to anyone, regardless of age. The closest LUGNET could get would be a 501(c)7 "Social and Recreational" organization. Paul Sinasohn, who has been through this (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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(...) It doesn't? (...) I don't think so, for the opposite reason: the "social and recreational facilities" here *are* available to the general public. (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)
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