On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
At 20:51 +0000 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
On 20 Nov 2008, at 17:25, Gordon Joly wrote:
At 15:50 +0000 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
Ian,
On further investigation, a bank account is not needed to open a paypal account, but it is required to withdraw funds from the paypal account.[...]
But you can transfer to another PayPal account of course!
True. Perhaps I should have said "get the money off Paypal".
Mike
The Foundation have a PayPal account,,,,
Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it? ;-)
It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption / deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this, viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for the application to succeed).
Michael
Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it? ;-)
It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption / deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this, viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for the application to succeed).
Boring and illegal. We can't just donate money to the foundation. The trustees have been trusted with the money and they have to be the ones to decide what it gets spent on. We could probably give restricted donations for specific purposes, but not general donations.
At 13:40 +0000 27/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it? ;-)
It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption / deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this, viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for the application to succeed).
Boring and illegal. We can't just donate money to the foundation. The trustees have been trusted with the money and they have to be the ones to decide what it gets spent on. We could probably give restricted donations for specific purposes, but not general donations.
OK.
Gordo
At 14:04 +0100 27/11/08, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
At 20:51 +0000 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
On 20 Nov 2008, at 17:25, Gordon Joly wrote:
At 15:50 +0000 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
Ian,
On further investigation, a bank account is not needed to open a paypal account, but it is required to withdraw funds from the paypal account.[...]
But you can transfer to another PayPal account of course!
True. Perhaps I should have said "get the money off Paypal".
Mike
The Foundation have a PayPal account,,,,
Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it? ;-)
It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption / deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this, viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for the application to succeed).
Michael
Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
I couldn't possibly comment.
Gordo
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