OK, so "in-kind" is usually referring to a type of payment, in good or services, rather than a type of donation.
I'm sure the charity shops have to account the value of donated second-hand clothes as "in-kind" donation income for tax purposes, but that's not how an oridinary British person would talk about donating some used books or toys, right? Joseph Eisenberg On 2/19/20, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > Hi Joseph > In British English the phrase has the same meaning as you describe. > > The most common usage is in taxation terms when an employee receives a > benefit that is not money. Examples can be a cars, housing. > > My reaction to this proposal was the same as yours, they are describing a > charity shop. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On Tuesday, 18 February 2020, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> While "in-kind donation" is an English phrase, it is not commonly used >> and it also includes donations of services, rather than just goods. >> >> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_kind "in kind refers to goods, >> services, and transactions not involving money or not measured in >> monetary terms." >> >> "In Kind: consisting of something (such as goods or commodities) other >> than money" (Merriam-Webster) - also says "first known usage 1973". >> >> "In Kind: (of payment) given in the form of goods or services and not >> money" or "If you do something in kind, you do the same thing to >> someone that they have just done to you." (Cambridge) >> >> This might be difficult for mappers to understand, unless this phrase >> is more common in British English than it appears (I'm an American >> English speaker). >> >> I believe this proposal is focused on donations of things: physical >> objects which have some value, also known as "goods," "items", >> "stuff", "things", like those that you can commonly give away at a >> second_hand shop or charity shop. >> >> If that is the case, a better tag might be something like >> "goods_donation=", "second_hand_donation=", >> "donation=second_hand_goods" or something with one of those other >> common words for objects. >> >> But perhaps the key should include the type of things, since mostly >> people will say "donate used clothes", "donate used books" or "donate >> used furniture" rather than talking about all possible objects: >> internet searches for those specific phrases find more results. >> >> - Joseph Eisenberg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > -- > Sent from my Sailfish device > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
