Digital BW, The Print

I was being sarcastic, sorry.
There's considerable personal experience with that scenario that has
resulted in my cynicism about it. I'll leave it at that.
Ultimately, I hope the poster got the advice he needed.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Brian Ellis
<bellis60@...> wrote:
>
> "The people who get the real tax benifit are the wealthy who made the
> purchase, they can utitize the full amount of they spent at the
> auction. After all, they had to get in their car and drive there and
> all, dress, etc.."
> 
> Well of course they did a little more than just get dressed and
drive to the 
> auction - they laid out the money to buy the work of art that they
donate to 
> the charity.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:36 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Valuing Prints
> 
> 
> I first discovered this long ago when I contributed an entire body of
> work of a Costa Rica Rain forest to the Nature Conservancy who
> happened to be involved in the area.
> 
> I am told that my contributions of pieces to art auctions for
> charities are only reportable to the IRS at the material cost of
> production. This does not include my time of course, or any real
> market value. It's only art, after all, and surely just a hobby for me.
> The people who get the real tax benifit are the wealthy who made the
> purchase, they can utitize the full amount of they spent at the
> auction. After all, they had to get in their car and drive there and
> all, dress, etc..
> 
> Welcome to America.
> 
> Make sure you are involved only because of the spirit of the thing,
> that's what counts and it'll be difficult to otherwise take advantage
> of your act of generosity.
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "hflockwood"
> <hflockwood@> wrote:
> >
> > In a juried process, I was selected to exhibit my (B&W) prints at a
> non-profit art center in VT
> > (Northeast Kingdom.)  The prints are archival (carbon on cotton: MIS
> quadtone, HFA paper)
> > and are professionally matted and (16x20) framed.  There will be 25
> prints in the month-
> > long exhibit.
> >
> > Since the center is in the midst of a fund raising effort, I'm
> contemplating donating the entire
> > collection to their building fund, rather than trying to sell them.
>  Obviously, this raises the
> > question of how to value the collection for tax purposes.
> >
> > The materials cost to me of putting the collection together is about
> $150 per print, with no
> > value given to my time or to the artistic value of the prints
included.
> >
> > So, if I am to claim a charitable deduction, how do I value the
> donation?  The center has
> > agreed that $400 per print, or $10,000 for the collection, would be
> easily justified.
> >
> > I'm looking for guidance from others who may have faced a similar
> situation.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> 
> 
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