Hi,
Can someone answer him ?
Subject: [Wikimediafr-l] donations Date: Sunday 27 February 2005 06:49 From: Dean Rivando <deanrivando (at) yahoo . ca> To: wikimediafr-l@wikimedia.org
Hi there,
I would like to donate, but I will only do so if I receive a tax credit in Canada. Can you please advise me whether you have charitable status with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and whether donations made in Canada are tax deductible.
thanks,
Dean Rivando
Subject: [Wikimediafr-l] donations Date: Sunday 27 February 2005 06:49 From: Dean Rivando <deanrivando (at) yahoo . ca> To: wikimediafr-l@wikimedia.org
I would like to donate, but I will only do so if I receive a tax credit in Canada. Can you please advise me whether you have charitable status with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and whether donations made in Canada are tax deductible.
While we are almost certainly are about to get tax exempt status in the United States we have not yet explored that possibility for other nations. This may require the formation of a Wikimedia chapter in Canada but we have not yet looked into this.
Rest assured that once we have tax exempt status in the United States we will explore ways to directly gain similar status in other nations where possible and encourage the creation of national chapters where not.
-- Daniel Mayer
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Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
Can someone answer him ?
From: Dean Rivando <deanrivando (at) yahoo . ca>
Hi there,
I would like to donate, but I will only do so if I receive a tax credit in Canada. Can you please advise me whether you have charitable status with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and whether donations made in Canada are tax deductible.
This is not available, and it could be a long while before it is. Canadian tax relief for foreign donations applies only in limited circumstances. One of those might be if you have US source income. For practical purposes getting tax relief in Canada depends on having an organization that is registered as a charity in Canada. Part of the application process includes submitting a recent financial statements, and that can't be done until there's an organization. Once the organization is registered the donated funds must be used to support Canadian operations.
There are circumstances where a Canadian structiore would be beneficial, but an organization would be needed first, and I haven't seen much interest expressed in that.
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From: Dean Rivando <deanrivando (at) yahoo . ca>
Hi there,
I would like to donate, but I will only do so if I receive a tax credit in Canada. Can you please advise me whether you have charitable status with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and whether donations made in Canada are tax deductible.
Dean, give less. Use the difference to pay the tax. Tax in your country is useful to help pay for infrastructure, defense, and healthcare.
Say you wanted to give CAN$50. Give 40, use the other 10 to pay for the tax. For you it's the same (still spending 50) and for wikipedia it's better (40 instead of 0) :)
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