On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 21:48 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 03/10/2012 03:41 PM, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > Le 9 mars 2012 23:51, "Luc Pionchon" <pionchon luc gmail com > > <mailto:pionchon luc gmail com>> a écrit : > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 22:36, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com > > <mailto:brian cameron oracle com>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Are any of GNOME's 3 sister organizations that have bank accounts in > > > > Europe a tax free charity currently? > > > > > > About French associations tax law, in a nutshell: > > > > > > GNOME-FR is a non-profit organization, so called "association loi > > > 1901". As a non-profit organization, it is tax free. I am not sure > > > what you mean by "charity" and how it translates into French fiscal > > > system. > > > > Charity is mean in the sense donations are deductible from your own tax. > > GNOME-fr is not a charity in that sense, it would need to become a > > "association reconnue d'utilité publique", which is a lot of paper work > > and budget . > [...] > Couldn't you guys hold the fund for a while and then do a 'group' wire > transfer to the GNOME Foundation: at least that would lessen the > individual donation cost by quite a lot. > > Another way would be to keep those funds to be spent on GNOME Foundation > expenses during GUADEC for example (or some GNOME Foundation sponsored > hackfests in Europe). > > Does this make sense? It might need necessary to figure out the way to do it properly (I think that is what Baptiste is trying to figure out). Otherwise, for the tax office this sort of operation can look as money laundry or tax evasion. -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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