Hi! On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: >...on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:42:48PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> > I don't actually understand what that whining about tax deduction is > > about. >My guess is that it's not about the tax deduction in >itself (although that certainly helps), it's about >the receipt. >Companies very much like to generate a proper paper >trail when they hand out money, and not only for the >tax office. So it's probably easier to get a company >to order a few hundred CDs instead of a donation. At least here in Europe, you *do* get a paper trail if you use bank money transfers. Just as OpenBSD have setup it now (which is definitely a good move; if there's an account in Germany, I'll seriously consider doing an automated periodical donation, small, but regular, dunno whether that also works for non-German Euro zone bank accounts as target though, if not, then single manual donations have to do for me). >[...] Kind regards, Hannah.
