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Fundraising Ideas For Schools Canada

Question: ideas for a fundraising event for a school group?

i have to put an awesome fund raising idea on a application to go on this trip with my school to somewhere in Canada! i really want to go and have a awesome idea for a fund raising event!!
please help!! any suggestions would be awesome!

Answer: List of ideas

Community dance or dance off (You know in the movie Grease where they have certain rules they have to follow and if they are broken then they are out or you could have it to wear there is dance teams going up against one another like Stomp the yard) or just a plain dance

You could have like a movie night where people pay so much to get in but have it cheaper than the local theaters and some refreshments.

Have a Carnival at your school sell raffle tickets. Make sure you get local businesses to contribute the prizes so you wont go in the hole.

Car washes always go pretty good especially in the spring and summer times.

Candy is always a good bet but its not very creative.

Have a talent contest where everyone has to pay to get in... like a dollar or something and make sure its in the daytime when you are suppose to have school so it guarantees that almost everyone will be there.

Well for Mother's day you guys could sell flowers or something like that. I dont know when this trip is so i dont know how long you have to come up with something.

This is kind of odd but if you can get some volunteers you can have like an auction of people... maybe your teachers? or some good students that people trust? And people pay for them to come to there homes and do what they want.. house work or maybe if a teacher buys a student they have to clean the classroom or something like that.

Its getting harder for me to come up with some now lol

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Tax Planning Manual

Question: False Advertising; did I get ripped off?

I recently purchased a treadmill on Craigslist and I was told that the treadmill was only ‘a couple years old.’ Also, I was told the seller paid $1300 said years ago. I originally offered $400, with a listed price of $600 obo, but seeing as it had hardly been used and was only ‘a couple’ years old, I was willing to pay the $460 she bargained back with. Once I had it home I was reading the owners manual she included…and the original Bill of Sale fell out. It listed that she herself only paid $1094.99 shipping/tax included; it also said that she purchased it in 2003, double the amount of time ago she had advertised. Am I out the money with no possible repercussions or would I be able to make a claim in court? I don’t necessarily plan on taking it that far should I be able to, I just want her to know I’m serious about getting back the extra money I offered because it was advertised as a late model.

Answer: You know, a really good pair of running shoes is maybe $90 - and you get to go outside. Treadmills are clothes dryers waiting to happen.

Rhonda Abrams

2009 Tax Planning Letter

Question: What will Nancy Pelosi do to the Freshman Democrats?

Freshman Dems oppose Pelosi’s tax increase

Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members have signed a letter opposing their leadership’s plan to raise taxes to finance a healthcare overhaul.

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) circulated the letter, saying that the income surtax on the wealthy would place an undue burden on small businesses, some of which pay taxes in the same way as an individual. The letter had 22 signers, all freshmen except for Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.), who is in his second term.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/freshman-dems-oppose-pelosis-tax-increase-2009-07-17.html

Answer: If they have any guts they won't care. There is such a thing as principles and we need more of it in Congress.

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Tax Planning Worksheet

Question: Can you provide help with question 1a on the IRA Deduction Worksheet for Federal Taxes?

I am on medical disability and have not worked for 4 years. I am covered under a 401K (retirement plan) at work but no contributions have been made into that plan since I went on disability. How should I be answering the question on the IRA Deduction Worksheet for line 25, question 1a – “Were you covered by a retirement plan?” The available answers for 1a are Yes or No.

Answer: Yes. If you are still covered under a retirement plain at work the answer is yes

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Tax Planning Proposal

Question: Edwards’s Tax Plan Focuses?

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he would raise the capital gains tax rate to 28% from 15% and boost income taxes on those making more than $200,000 a year in order to finance tax cuts and other benefits for middle- and lower-income families.

The tax proposal lays down a big marker in the 2008 campaign tax debate and is likely to spur Mr. Edwards’s main rivals for the Democratic nomination, Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, to detail their tax prescriptions in the coming months.

See link – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118548333453979331.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Question – What are your thoughts ?

Answer: Why should capital gains taxed be raised ?

That is a tax on the investor. Anyone can be an investor.
Investing is the only way to raise your standard of living without winning the lottery and the odds are much better.

when I was 18 years old the bank I had a small account to cash my checks at went public (started offering stock) I bought $1,000 dollars worth at $10 dollars a share I received 100 shares.

In one year the shares went up to $40 MAKING MY STOCK WORTH $4000, that was great until I discovered I had to pay 33% of that to the IRS making my four grand into 2,680.

This was money I worked for then paid taxes then took a risk (icould have lost the money just as fast) and when I gained the goverment hit me with a 33% tax when my normal tax rate was around 10%. I was only making around 12,000 a year.

Investment and savings is the path to a better life and the goverment should help the little guy buy letting them keep more of what they eraned.

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