Pinging Lisa about this email. Thanks, Pine On Aug 23, 2015 5:36 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation is an "ANBI registered charity" [1]. It means that > Dutch people may deduct their gift from their income. > > In the Netherlands there is much more to tax deductibility, making it > easier to deduct money for taxes even more and increasing the amount of > money that may be had by the WMF.. > > At the time when the WMF itself became registered as such, it was clear > that it is possible to make it an European charity and by consequence make > gifts in the whole of the European community tax deductible. > > I have in the past reached out to the WMF about this topic. I did not get > any reply. It is certain that the process can be optimised for the donors > and for the WMF in a meaningful way. > > PS I am professionally involved in raising funds for charities in the > Netherlands. Ie I am not clueless. > > Thanks, > GerardM > > [1] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Tax_Deductibility/en#.C2.A0Netherlands > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
