<div dir="ltr"><div>Ahh - okay. When a donor has wanted a valuation for tax purposes in our case the donor has found an independent evaluator. We can't provide those valuations. But I can see how it would help to know who to point such donors to.<br><br></div>Best, K.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Dennis R Paulson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dpaulson@pugetsound.edu" target="_blank">dpaulson@pugetsound.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Kevin, we have a donor of an insect collection who wants to know if they can write off the donation for tax purposes. I know of other insect collections where donors have done this, with specimens valued in the neighborhood of $5 each by an assessor. I
assume vertebrate specimens are worth a lot more than that. I suppose the value should be the same whether for insurance or taxes.</div>
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<div>So from what you say it appears that you actually designate the value of your specimens. Are there any sort of published guidelines?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 4:02 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Dennis R Paulson <<a href="mailto:dpaulson@pugetsound.edu" target="_blank">dpaulson@pugetsound.edu</a>><br>
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<div>Hi, Dennis. It is commonly done for insurance purposes, but I haven't heard of it for tax purposes. We do our own insurance evaluations.<br>
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<div>I’m writing to ask if any of you have the name and email of one or more people who assess the value of collections for tax purposes. This is something we need this year for the first time. I don’t think I’ve seen anything about this on nhcoll before.</div>
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