Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

["David.Crosswell" <david.crosswell2@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
--------------enigDC17857AA73C1DD879EA3866
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 02/07/12 21:28, Jelle Hermsen wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 12:17 PM, Siju George wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
>> <iam@juanfra.info>  wrote:
>>> For deduce taxes from donations, the dragonfly project needs create a=

>>> non-profit organization and this is something complex and time
>>> consuming.
>>>
>> OpenBSD project hesitated for a long time due to the same reason. The
>> I guess developer Bob Beck to the initnksative to start the OpenBSD
>> foundation. If some body needs info on how to do this I guess he might=

>> be able to help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Siju
> I think there are two important distinctions to make here. First the
> OpenBSD foundation is based in Canada, and secondly they are not a
> registered charity because of the paperwork and overhead this would
> cause. Being a non-profit doesn't automatically make your donations
> tax-deductible. In our case this would mean, on top of starting a
> non-profit, we would need to apply for 501(c)(3)
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization#501.28c.29.283.2=
9>
> status. Regarding the paperwork and administration, starting a
> non-profit is relatively easy, and achieving and maintaining a
> charitable status is hard.
>
> However if we just started a non-profit we could start accepting
> donations without an individual (i.e. Matthew Dillon) being personally
> responsible for the taxes, potentially creating a difficult
> bookkeeping situation for him solely.
>
> We could just start a non-profit so we can start accept donations
> right now and get to tax-deductibility later on. I'm not an American
> citizen (I'm Dutch), but if we do decide to start a non-profit I would
> be more that willing to help sort everything out.

Something like this could be handy:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/misery

Regards,

David.
>
> Cheers,
> Jelle
>



--------------enigDC17857AA73C1DD879EA3866
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP8fZlAAoJEC6fpkQWEymHo60IAI5tWcXQ1J/UKwKKVtNuNNqV
vrccHD/AQmuRt+n9nfwgkABJ9qIQbqHJC/5GO3lddJB5aVkaIgLe5i4qJU24jrHE
asRb9vVxaGdGzoDaPAj5dWHXdpUgDq9yByEdxe5zmLzO7V5niRaH1aTZ5xSLvfZ/
aDalo1rRd+tVGLUeSR4awu5j79Loh+Mi2xpvxrz0cRktvkha16UvOxCUILfWMs1D
ITqjBx2fyGd5O2srT2R0lxMan1fE7iIz1hptShRVZp57aZkb/kRCpOPO5jR7o+Zc
xzClFzzcGr126SqY14TbMXb5d6+NA+YqiiNGgduhoqQgr6P0n7qpLin8lnJInaY=
=lSug
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--------------enigDC17857AA73C1DD879EA3866--