R: Friday is the day

[silvio grosso]

Hi Boud,

> Maybe in some countries, the donation will actually be tax-deductible 
despite the lack of charitable status of the foundation in the 
Netherlands.

In Italy, for our kind of Association (promoting open source GIS software), all donations were not tax-deductible.
In order to have this reduction, for our donors, we should have been supposed to follow a very strict regularization. 
Nevertheless, our own accountant always suggested us not to follow this route because of all "complications"  it entailed (plenty of paper to produce for me, as a treasurer, and our Secretary).

To sum up, our  donors were *true* believers in the GIS open source software: since they did NOT get any tax reduction thanks to their donations :-)
All in all, this was not a problem for them since these amounts were pretty small (usually under 50 euros).

P.s: as explained, the money collected for "bug-fixing" stuff required instead an invoice from the developer (with VAT etc)

Best regards,

Silvio Grosso


--- Mar 27/11/12, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> ha scritto:

Da: Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
Oggetto: Re: R: Friday is the day
A: "Krita's developers and users mailing list" <kimageshop at kde.org>
Data: Martedì 27 novembre 2012, 12:49

On Tuesday 27 November 2012 Nov, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi Boud,
> 
> Just a curiosity: let's suppose someone wants to "donate" some money for bug-fixing stuff on Krita.
> 
> How does it work?
> 
> I am supposed to receive an invoice for this "donation" from the Foundation or it is not necessary since I am donating the money for a "charitable" goal?


Well, I can always send a receipt, just like you describe below. When the foundation is active, I'll create a bank account and a paypal and flattr account and make it easy to send money. Maybe in some countries, the donation will actually be tax-deductible despite the lack of charitable status of the foundation in the Netherlands.

> 
> More precisely, I have been for 2 years the Treasurer of the Gfoss.it Association (http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/).
> This Italian Association is No-profit.
> None of us: President, secretary, treasurer etc has never earned any money from our work (we were all volunteers). 
> Our President, for instance, is a *true* world-wide legend in the open source GIS software (he has created SpatiaLite: http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/) :-)

Cool!

> 
> Whenever we received some donations from our associates we simply released a receipt (with NO true "legal" value)
> In short, this document was NOT at all meant as an invoice and you could NOT use it for reducing your taxes.
> On the other hand, if someone wanted to donate some money *specifically* for some open source GIS software (e.g. Qgis, PostGIS etc) we "simply" collected the money.
> Later on, it was up to the developer, as soon as he received from us this money, to send an invoice (with VAT etc) to our donors.

Yes, we could do that still, and the foundation could broker, exactly like you describe.


-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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