Seriously, get over it.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
On 31 December 2011 15:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58:
On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exleyzexley@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone -
It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in
the
banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all.
It's
hard to find the right balance.
This banner isn't just annoying, it is untrue. You can make a tax deductible donation tomorrow just as easily as you can make it today. It will get deducted off next year's taxes, not this year's, but unless you are trying to reduce your tax bill to zero that makes absolutely no difference.
I'm not familiar with USA deducibility (the WMF legal department doesn't give advice either ;) https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations ), so could you explain this point? Aren't there annual limits to deductible amounts?
I'm not particularly familiar with USA tax law either. In the UK, I believe you are simply limited by your taxable income - you end up paying negative tax. If there are other limits that apply in the USA, then my point still stands - unless you are already planning to max out your limit next year, it makes essentially no difference if you deduct your donation from this year's taxes or next year's. Whatever the limits are, I doubt many donors are expecting to be anywhere near them.
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