[Sca-cooks] Getting discounted foods - was: Menus

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Elaine Koogler:
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>
>>>Getting donations is wonderful if you can manage it.  Vendors can write it
>>>off on their taxes.  I have tried to get wholesale prices without much luck,
>>>however.  When we looked into this option, we were told that since we were
>>>not paying taxes on the other side (i.e. we were not re-selling the food and
>>>paying tax on that food sale), we had to pay the tax when we bought it.
>>>Just because we were a non-profit didn't get us a wholesale rating.  Anyone
>>>else have different results?
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Well, Restaurant Depot will let you shop there for a non-profit 
>>organization if you can provide a copy of the group's tax 
>>certificate. Christopher, who is a local group exchequer, is going 
>>to follow up on that with our kingdom to see if we can do that.
>>
>>
>I know that I've shopped at the one near Baltimore, and they 
>required a business license.  Does the tax certificate negate the 
>need for this?
>
>Kiri

My own experience (and others' mileage may vary greatly) is that 
offering conspicuously to pay cash -- especially if your supplier is 
not part of a big national chain -- will make sales tax, a tax 
certificate, and license unnecessary.

I think part of the problem is that while we're not-for-profit, the 
tax certificate does not entitle us to the kind of discount designed 
for resellers.

Adamantius, former exchequer whose info may be obsolete
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