On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 00:33, Daniel Schwen<lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
receives come
with strings attached, and Wikimedia PL can only spend
that money _within Poland_. None of their doing, it's the law, you
can't do anything about it. It goes with their non-profit status. In
I find this hard to believe. By the same logic it would be impossible
for a polish non-profit to perform humanitarian aid in development
countries.
Not all donations come within this frame. I hope I'm not saying
anything wrong here, as this is the way I have understood it, but
there is a special way a charity can get donations in Poland, and that
is through people's income tax. To make a long story short, at the end
of the fiscal year as a tax payer in poland, you have the possibility
to decide that 1% (or some other %?) of your income tax goes to a
designated charity (approved by the tax office). Donations received
through this mean are to be spent in Poland.
Charities can also fundraise in various other ways and the donations
coming through those other channels do not come with those strings
attached. Not all charities are "designated charities", although they
can still have tax-deductible status. Which should answer your
disbelief... charities in Poland _can_ spend their money elsewhere
than in Poland, if it does not come through this 1%.
Delphine
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