Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: food and taxes

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

At our cohousing, we have a separate account for common meal money, and for 
common house event fees. The meal money is mainly a holding tank - people 
put in ahead for meals, get deducted when they eat, cooks get reimbursed 
expenses, and the common house pantry fund gets fifty cents a meal, for the 
spices, oils, flours, etc that also go into the meals. So it's no income, in 
fact. 

The common house event money comes in typically ten dollars at a time, and 
we figure it's a reimbursement for the real costs of heating, utilities, and 
wear and tear. That too is held in a separate account, though periodically 
it gets moved into the budget to be applied to CH operation costs. 

Lynn Nadeau