Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think it would be better to formulate a requirement that it must be a > not-for-profit organization, but leave the choice on the tax-beneficial > status to the people doing the actual organization. I think there are many benefits from being a tax-beneficial

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > + It would be preferable if the organizations holding assets in > + trust for Debian undertake certain obligations for the handling of > + such assets, as an example: It seems strange to use a conditional with no condition. I suggest: + It is preferre

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 16 Jun 2006, Florian Weimer told this: > Shouldn't this be parallel to the second instance below, that is > "designated by the Project Leader or their Delegate(s)", instead of > requiring delegation? Right. I think the following pseudo diff is pretty close to where I want it

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:57:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a company holds money on behalf of Debian and they don't charge > > Debian with taxes that is fine imo as the Debian-money is not touched by > > taxes in that case. > > I disagree. There ar

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread MJ Ray
Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In some countries like e.g. Austria it is quite difficult to get the > tax-deductable status for donations while it is fairly easy to get tax > exumption for them. Then I think going tax-exempt would be adequate in Austria. > If a company holds money o

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 08:27]: >> I've looked into this in the past and every example country >> suggested so far, from European ones through to the Solomon >> Islands, had some form of tax-beneficial not-for-profit >> organisation.

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread Martin Wuertele
* MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 08:27]: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:27:08AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > > Which countries can have no suitable organisations? > > > > I don't know, but I don't want to gamble on it not being an issue. > >

Re: Donations

2006-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:27:17AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:27:08AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > > Which countries can have no suitable organisations? > > > > I don't know, but I don't want to gamble on it not being an issue