We need to ask them to correct the point where they say "Wikimedia, which has income of less than £5,000 a year, has decided to stop referring to itself as a charity or an exempt charity, as it has up until now, and start describing itself as a ‘not-for-profit’ instead." We arnt wikimedia.
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:46:32 +0100 From: thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
2009/6/1 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
See http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php? id=2876&pg=15&cat=30
"HMRC had denied charitable tax status to Wikimedia UK, which runs the Wikipedia UK website, stating that production of an encyclopaedia is not a charitable purpose."
They're not even trying... "the Wikipedia UK" website?
Good quotes from Andrew though - well done!
I thought we spoke to the WMF ages ago (in fact, I think I did it) and they didn't know any useful lawyers, so where did that bit come from?
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