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Re: Appreciation / Financial support


From: Henning Hraban Ramm
Subject: Re: Appreciation / Financial support
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 22:19:26 +0200


Am 2012-05-28 um 21:26 schrieb David Kastrup:

Hannes Kuhnert <address@hidden> writes:

Tim McNamara schrieb:
Sending money directly to developers instead of to a central Lilypond
account cuts a lot of costs and eliminates much of the need for
organizational bureaucracy (e.g., an accounting department).

On the other hand donations to a non-profit organisation would give
the contributor a benefit on income tax (think as higher donations at
same effort).

Definitely.  But setting up and maintaining the status of a non-profit
organisation is taking serious effort.

Esp. internationally!

Some (most?) countries accept tax benefits only with national NPOs, perhaps plus a few known, big international ones (like Red Cross). E.g. when living in Switzerland I had never any benefit from my donations to German non-profits.

I just read that German laws that restricted tax benefits to national NPOs were sentenced illegal by the European Court in 2009, i.e. you can at least get tax benefits for donations to NPOs within the EU.

But an international NPO is nevertheless hard to establish and to maintain.
I heard within the EU it would be most easy in France.

And even if we had a LilyPond NPO, I guess we wouldn’t be allowed to give most of our donations to just one developer - and at least according to German law, he wouldn’t be allowed to be a member of that NPO.

Le it be...

Greetlings, Hraban


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