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Wed Aug 21 22:04:34 EDT 2013

We haven't needed an accountant since 2009-ish, when we closed the books on the Conference Center project. 

IRS previously required detailed books on .orgs with $25K+ receipts. Now the threshold is $50K+ receipts… After the books closed on the conference center project, which had funding in excess of the threshold, and had several employees on payroll, there was no real need for an accountant to deal with the books. 

The tax returns on a .org with <$50K receipts has been reduced to an "e-postcard" -- so simple a monkey with internet connection (like Chris Gilligan) could do it. You can both thank and curse congre$$ and the $upr3me cour+ for this… the same rules that allow us to fly under the radar because we make so little money, also allow the bigwig corporate .orgs to spend $billion$ to influence the election$ of tho$e who legi$late on our behalf.

On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Sequatchie Valley Institute <officemanager at svionline.org> wrote:

> As of this moment, you have no accountant.
> 
> If you want to re-establish ties to an accountant, you should talk to Carol… she probably remembers the name of the previous accountant, or the firm for which she worked. I can't recall it off the top of my hopped up head.
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> Sequatchie Valley Institute
> 1233 Cartwright Loop
> Whitwell, TN 37397
> 423-949-5922
> officemanager at svionline.org
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> On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Marissa Percoco <happyferalfamily at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> who's our accountant?
>> 
>> I hear my ancestors--both future & passed--asking, "What will you do while the world unravels?"
>> 
>> And so, I am learning to weave...
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>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:49 PM, christopher gilligan <chris at chrisgilligan.net> wrote:
>> Pat, you should talk to an accountant about what it means (and takes) to set up a chapter organization. It is a bit more paperwork and it takes a lot of effort from all sides. It helps if the child chapter has it's own accountant that can speak financialeze to the parent .org's accountant.
>> 
>> It can be done, but it definitely takes more financial savoir-faire than what's in my head.
>> 
>> We have done this for skatepark.org in the past, but the results have been… to put it mildly… mixed. If the child .org is .organized, and has it's own accountant, and if the parent .org is .organized and has its own accountant who knows their sh!t, then it works well. If it's dis.organized, it's a magnet for irs.gov, and it all falls to p!ece$. 
>> 
>> So, I recommend: before you pursue this path, get re-established with a local accountant, and require the potential child .org to have their accountant speak to your accountant before you tango.
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>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Patrick Ironwood <patrick at svionline.org> wrote:
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>>> this is great thanks, can you please help me to know what it takes for svi to umbrella an organization... it seems its what we have been doing for robin of the forest... and id like to help a group in Asheville... peacetrain... look for their web site... they have a beta... and then i hear alex fear has an herbal teaching school... so id like to figure out how we can source out some of svi's potential to others doing work we would like to support... if they raise money we will get a percentage for administrative overhead..say 4-14%.... any ideas or information on this would be helpful.
>>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:58 AM, christopher gilligan wrote:
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>>>> http://svionline.org/board/categories/svi-board-of-directors
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>>>> http://svionline.org/board/discussion/3/by-laws-of-the-svi-bod-bylaws
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>>> the rule of no realm is mine.  but all worthy things that are in peril as the earth now stands, those are my care.  and for my part,  i shall not wholly fail in my task if anything passes through the night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in the days to come. for  i too am a steward, are not you?  Gandalf
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