Hi, Anthony Towns wrote:
> .au law is that you can't make donations for work on Debian
> tax deductible.
Why not?
In Germany, the way this works is that an organization sets up a list of
goals, and if these fall into some categories which define tax-exempt
status, the state grants that status to the organization (for a limited
time, subject to review); any activity of the organization which furthers
these goals is OK, thus donations earmarked for those activities are
also tax exempt.
Free Software isn't on the list of state-sanctioned goals per se, of
course, but some related goals and activities are (free public education,
for instance).
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