Friends of the Library

["Sam Scripter" <MoscowSam@moscow.com>]

Tim ...

Whew!   What a story.   You must really be incensed, and I
don't blame you.

An almost unbelievable story, especially for Moscow.

In my case, the problem was a local bank, federal rules, and
my bagpipe band.

The band is paid for a few gigs we do each year.  We keep
the money in a bank account until we need to buy supplies
such as reeds and additions to our non-uniform uniform..

Eventually, after many years, the bank would not continue
our account without a social security number or a tax id
number.  The latter we did not have, so another member
of the band let us use his social security number.

Than meant that the interest earned on our deposits were
reported to the IRS, by the bank, as his income.

It wasn't much, and the extra taxes he paid as the result
was very small,  but it was very unfair.

We resolved it, finally, by filing for a tax id number as a
not for profit organization.

That worked beautifully.  The number was awarded with no
interchange with the IRS, just the original submission of
their form.

Has Friends of the Library considered doing what we did?

With best regards,

Sam Scripter
MoscowSam@moscow.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Hillebrand <thillebr@moscow.com>
To: Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
Cc: Daily News <editor@moscow.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 9:33 AM
Subject: Friends of the Library declared profit seekers by
postal clerk


>A postal clerk at the Moscow post office has taken it upon
herself to
>declare unilaterally that the Friends of the Library are
not part of the
>Library and, therefore, not a non-profit organization. For
two days (so far)
>she has held up a bulk mailing of the Friends newsletter
announcing our book
>sale April 10th at Eastside MarketPlace.