From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 20:58:35 EST
Michael Everson writes:
> I've got an idea. Why don't you, and your friends, and your friends'
> friends, all decide to give generously to the Script Encoding
> Initiative http://www.unicode.org/sei/ between now and the end of
> 2003?
I do appreciate the initiative, but I always feel irritated when I find this
argument in favor of donation to a non-profit educational and research US
organization:
> It's tax deductible.
Such sentence should always be complete:
"It's tax-deductible in US, according to the current IRS rules."
I don't think that the sentence is valid for any other citizen living
elsewhere in the world and not paying revenue taxes in US...
For example, tax deduction in France is possible but only for a part of the
donation, and only for donations to organizations meeting some statutory and
fiscal conditions, and that maintain a balance of their finances reported at
least each year, and accepting controls of these finance to verify that they
are really non-profit; to qualify for higher tax deductions, the
organization must also be audited and approved, and must send a certified
fiscal receipt for all the donations it receives.
And I don't think that SEI can qualify or meet the legal constraints to have
the free donations to it being deduced completely or partly of revenue
taxes. Even in US, there must be some legal limitations in the IRS code (I
don't know it but if it was true, nobody would even pay taxes, and everybody
would try to find a "friendly" organization to donate to them in exchange of
the services these organization may provide to the donator...)
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