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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 05:23:19 -0800 (PST) From: Sagar Behere sagar_behere@yahoo.com Subject: money matters
Hi all,
I am talking on behalf of NashLUG, the Nashik Linux Users Group
We are a fledgling linux users group and to spread the Linux word around, we often go to nearby colleges and hold seminars on various aspects of GNU and linux.
In doing these seminars, we incur some costs and so far the group members have been bearing this personally.
We have this idea of charging the seminar members some nominal entry fee, somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 rupees. In these seminars, we'd also be distributing copies of knoppix or similar stuff.
Which brings us to the point in question. During one of our discussions, a question came up as to whether we, a bunch of enthusiasts, were authorised to collect money. We do NOT want to run into problems later on with, say, the income tax authorities or their kin.
What is normally done under such circumstances? Do we have to register our group with some authority in order to collect money? What do other LUG's do? I am sure there are precedents to this problem.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance, Sagar (for NashLUG)
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