Seriously, get over it. On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 15:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58: > >> On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exley<zex...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >>> Hi everyone - > >>> > >>> It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in > the > >>> banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all. > It's > >>> hard to find the right balance. > >> > >> This banner isn't just annoying, it is untrue. You can make a tax > >> deductible donation tomorrow just as easily as you can make it today. > >> It will get deducted off next year's taxes, not this year's, but > >> unless you are trying to reduce your tax bill to zero that makes > >> absolutely no difference. > > > > I'm not familiar with USA deducibility (the WMF legal department doesn't > > give advice either ;) > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations ), so > > could you explain this point? > > Aren't there annual limits to deductible amounts? > > I'm not particularly familiar with USA tax law either. In the UK, I > believe you are simply limited by your taxable income - you end up > paying negative tax. If there are other limits that apply in the USA, > then my point still stands - unless you are already planning to max > out your limit next year, it makes essentially no difference if you > deduct your donation from this year's taxes or next year's. Whatever > the limits are, I doubt many donors are expecting to be anywhere near > them. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
