Message-Id: <199403141920.AA08262@world.std.com>
To: troll@sug.org (Alex Newman)
Cc: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: autocrat's pledge 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:46:52 EST."
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 14:20:53 -0500
From: Michael Bergman <augment@world.std.com>

Just a small quibble or two.  The problem Yevsha's just described
isn't "taxes", the problem is "bookkeeping."  Not that that makes it a
smaller problem, but we already have to do a lot of it...the tax
burden for a privately sponsored event would be calculated the same
way as it would be if the SCA was a for-profit organization -- gross
minus cost = net; tax is on the net.

Note that for once I am NOT speaking though my hat...I run a privately
sponsored series of vintage dances and have been over this ground
quite carefully with my accountant.  If each autocrat only ran one
event per year, they might not even have to pay taxes on the money, if
the "bake sale and garage sale loophole" applied -- I'm not saying it
does, just that it might.  Finding out whether or not it does is why I
have an accountant...

My site provides insurance, as far as I know (I'll actually check on
this, real soon.  But I'm pretty damn sure the insurance issue is
mainly with sites that do not make a regular practice of renting out
for "functions" -- such as armories.)

$400 - $500 per event for insurance is a lot less than $35 per
person...these are affordable figures, guys!  More so if we band
together with similarly minded neighbors, to spread out the premiums.


I don't WANT to start doing "privately sponsored events."  But we can
if we have to.  

--Harald Longfellow