Hi, Martin Hollmichel wrote on 2011-06-09 11.20:
Team OOo donation are not tax-deductible, as not want have all spendings as especially meritorious. Of course Team OOo is a non-profit organization and more flexible in spendings. My understanding is that the especially meritorious term also limits spending inside Germany (see German link)
indeed, having it as "besonders förderungswürdig" brings the benefit of getting tax bonuses and having donations as well as membership fees tax-deductible, while it limits the way you can spend. Both options do not affect, as far as I recall, the type of donations or their origin that you can accept.
This combination of two associations so far worked very well, because depending on what was needed, it was one or the other association that could step in, as both models have their advantage, indeed.
Just as an example: In the past, we often had it that OOoDeV/FrODeV paid for the trade show booth e.g. at CeBIT, while TeamOOo jumped in with travel fundings.
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