Quote Originally Posted by Tuckervill View Post
The non-profit is big enough to have a fitness center?

I think they can find the money for a bike rack.

But tax credits don't apply to nonprofits at all, because ALL the taxes are "credited"!
It's a college, so of course there's a fitness center! And yeah, it bugs me that they budget for big-ticket things like buildings but we can't get $6,000 in the budget for a suicide prevention program. Since the board has to approve every expenditure, we don't have a lot of flexibility in the budget. The trick is to convince the right person early in the budget process that this is a necessary expense. But since we can't increase our budgets from one year to the next these days, we have to make do with level funding, and since prices for everything keep going up, this means that in reality we have to make do with less each year. And since there's only a handful of us on campus who commute by bike, that makes our needs a pretty low priority in the tiny "green campus" budget.

The reason I asked is because employees at non-profits can use pre-tax flex accounts for medical and childcare expenses. I'm not clear if this legislation is strictly a benefit for a tax-paying employer or if it's something that has to be offered to employees like a flex account.

Sarah