[Nhcoll-l] collection assessments

[Kevin Winker]

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.

Best, K.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Dennis R Paulson <dpaulson at pugetsound.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> So from what you say it appears that you actually designate the value of
> your specimens. Are there any sort of published guidelines?
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> Dennis
>
> From: Kevin Winker <kevin.winker at alaska.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 4:02 PM
> To: Dennis R Paulson <dpaulson at pugetsound.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] collection assessments
>
> 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.
>
> Best, K.
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Dennis R Paulson <dpaulson at pugetsound.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dennis
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