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Re: HELP PLEASE??!!

Author: William
Date: 2004-08-07 15:30

Consider donating your bass clarinet to a local school music program and claiming it as a charitable donation on your tax forms. No need to pay eBay nor to claim the sale as taxable income, and the value of your donation will be fully applied to the reduction of you taxable income. The school will issue a letter, that should be kept in your tax folder, describing your donation. But the actual value of your donation is usually not specified and is left up to you (or a qualified apprassor if the value is above certain limit). So why risk getting only a minumal amount for your bass clarinet on eBay, pay their auction fees and have to claim the income from the sale on your state and federal tax forms when you might realize a greater value (profit) as a charitalbe donation on your itemized tax form? Another thought--why risk only getting $450 for that unwanted vintage Kaspar Cicero mouthpiece via cyberauction when you could claim $550 (or much more) as a donation to a school? Imagine giving some young gradeschool beginning clarinetist the opportunity to start playing on a Kaspar..........(makes me want to go, hmmmmmmm)

Seriously, however, please consider donating your unwanted instrument(s) to a local school music program (private or public) and provide some child--who may not be able to afford their own instrument--the opportunity to play in the band and enjoy the enrichment of the performing musical arts.

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