On 10/23/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 10/23/07, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
* the tax deduction is only available in the USA.
Not anywhere else.
I put my donation last year through my accountants as tax
deductible, and
I'm in Belgium. What happened?
I'm pretty sure Florence was wrong here.
???
I'm pretty sure I was right. I doubt very much that a donation from a
person in Belgium, made to an american organization, can be deductible
from your belgium income taxes.
But IANA (I am not accountant) and if your accountants think it is fine...
IAAA (I am an accountant), but not in Belgium, and my comment was not
related to Belgium. Where I believe you're wrong is when you said
that the USA is the only place donations to the WMF are tax
deductible.
I can't speak for Belgium tax law. And you shouldn't either.
"The
Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the
United States. Donations made from other nations may also be tax
deductible. See deductibility of donations for details."
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/About_Wikimedia#Where_does_the_money_co…
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations
Ya. If you give the donation to some of the chapters, who are tax
deductible in your nation. Eg, Wikimedia France, eg Wikimedia Deutschland...
Is there even a chapter in Canada?
Additionally,
the tax deduction in the United States is only available
to less than one third of taxpayers. If you take the standard
deduction, you don't get a tax break for donations.
And a full 18% of
people in the US don't even speak English as their
primary language.