On Tue October 23 2007 12:09:35 pm Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:26:36AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > "associated" with SPI in the sense used above, but for which SPI > > accepts earmarked donations and whose funds we spend out or forward to > > another non-profit as instructed by the project in question? The > > I am not a tax expert, an accountant, or a lawyer, but if the > regulation exists, I expect it would be designed _precisely_ to > prevent this sort of activity. If I were the IRS, I would not want > my potential audit costs of non-profits to extend into audits of > _other_ non-profits to whom the first non-profit was forwarding > money. Indeed, that seems like the sort of shell game that would be > a boon to tax evaders and money launderers and such.
Isn't this pretty much what the United Way (a very large charity in the USA) does? _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
