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Paying Voulenteers
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Paying Voulenteers
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Tommy Nichols Jul 8.
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Both services that I work for have Stryker power cots. I have only used manual cots a few times, but that was a few times too many! From what I've heard the power cots are definitely worth the money in back injuries saved!
Love them back saver"""!!! but go up steeps suck because of the extra wt of the cot about 40 lbs.
The volunteer fire department I was with didn't provide any pay due to having paid onduty crew. The way I see it though any little bit will help offset fuel cost and ect. Another thing is to keep track of expenses for yearly tax write off.
Anyone else see the irony in a thread about paying volunteers? I always thought that volunteers wasn't about the money.
Thanks for all the interesting thoughts. I guess i should have not used the term "paid" and "volunteer", in same post. I have all volunteer service also. But it would be nice to give these volunteers some kind of reward for job well done day after...
I cannot speak for all volunteer orginizations, but ours is completely volunteer.Like you said, if somebody is paid, then you are not volunteer.
Paying volunteers? Then they are not volunteers, or are they?
While it is important to identify coverage and response problems, i think it is even more important to be honest with yourself (agency, not any one individual). Forgo stop gaps - they ...
maybe that is why we have beenhaving so much trouble with the IRS, and you are right, we need a new lawer, thanx.
Skip, I don;t know what I did to get under your craw, but you sure have been picking me apart lately. According to the IRS, whom we have been working with lately , if you have any other designation than 501c3 the doners cannot use their donations ...
Our department caps it at 500 a year max because of the legal gray area with doing that, since they also provide liability and malpractice insurance, First Responder equipment, and uniform allotments (If you can call T-Shirts uniform allotments. A...
You can also issue 1099's for any income received over $499 per tax year. Your volunteers are considered independent contractors (for tax reasons only) which allows your service to "pay" them without deducting taxes and FICA.
Linguistically, certainly. Legally, well, a different story--it depends on what the meaning of "is" is. ;)
But on the other hand, if you're talking about getting a few bucks for lunch if you come in for a 12-hr shift, are you really "paid" to be ...
Isn't "paid volunteers" an oxymoron?
You have to be careful doing this. Our fire department pays 7$ per call, up to two hours and minimum wage afterwords, up to a max of 500 per year. Apparantly that's the max the IRS will allow as reimbursement and not consider it a paid job. It's a...
Not to be harsh, but Bud's statement that if you pay anyone you loose your non-profit or 501(c)(3) tax exempt status is absolutely incorrect. It is completely permissible to pay employees of a non-profit.
Also on that note, just because you incor...
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