> > 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.
These are not people who want to give. They want to give without giving. They simply want to focus their money into being a writeoff, which means that our taxation systems increasingly place more and more of a burden on individuals, and less of a burden on companies. > (On the other side, I don't know how the incoming > donations are handled by OpenBSD, but they most > probably are also subject to taxation somewhere.) They are not taxed -- there is no tax on a gift. In 10 years of receiving donations we have never paid a cent to in tax on them, because someone else somewhere in the world already gave them to us post-tax. Again -- there is no tax on gifts.
