[Noisebridge-board] mail: checks, 7 day notices, and an IRS penalty fee.

[Noisebridge Treasurer]

I was expecting us to receive the tax penalty. Our tax professional
was contracted to handle it at the time that we filed our taxes. I
will forward this on to them. They told us it should be reasonable
easy to appeal.

I will check on Recology. It is supposed to be auto-paid, but their
system is a huge hassle, so we had a lot of problems setting up the
auto-pay. PG&E is auto paid, but I've been manually paying it as well
lately because auto-pay had a top cap of $600 which we've been
surpassing every month.

-Kelly

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:18, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 03:02:37PM -0700, miloh wrote:
>> The IRS sent a penalty notice for late tax return of our 990EZ. The penalty
>> is for $1720.00 which is 86 days late. PDF attached.
>>
>> Are the PGE and Recology bills current now? Who is handling them? What
>> happened to the IRS filing that resulted in a 86 day late filing?
>
> Ouch.  I am not too worried about the bills (I think we have them
> straightened out, if not we need to send some checks, no biggie).
>
> But the IRS thing ... we should probably have a Treasury Minions Meeting
> possibly including the Board, so that everybody can learn what we were
> supposed to do to avoid the penalty, and so that we can be confident
> that we don't penalize ourselves again in the future.
>
> We may be able to appeal the penalty, perhaps we should talk to a tax
> professional about that.
>
> In any case, this isn't going to bankrupt us or anything, but we do need
> to make sure it doesn't happen again.
>
> Kelly, if you'd like I can post to board@ and do some research on both
> of the above.
>
> Thanks,
> -andy
>