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The answer to this one is simple. According to IRS rules, you can't provide a receipt that gives any valuation. The receipt should verify only the number of books donated. Whether you keep them or not makes no difference. If the donor wishes to get a valuation
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Back when I could itemize deductions, I picked the median value for each book. The IRS never questioned my figures.</div>
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For the remaining books, add them to your book sale if you have one; offer them to a neighboring library that has book sales if you don't; consider homeless shelters, nursing homes, schools, etc. if the books are of potential interest. On the other hand, you
might consider the simplest solution as far as staff time goes and just recycle them. I'm aware of the various book consignment sites like Better World Books and Thrift Books, but they aren't worth considering for such a small number of titles. The same is
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<span style="font-size:20.0pt">We are a small academic library and recently had a patron donate 100+ books and is requesting a receipt for tax purposes. They are business and leadership books—mostly pretty old, a few classics, and few newer. I have a couple
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<span style="font-size:20.0pt">- -What amount should we consider issuing for these books--an amount for all the books donated, or only the ones we are keeping? We are only keeping about a dozen of the donated books.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:20.0pt">-Anything else I should consider that I have not asked about?</span></p>
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