[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 15:36:51 UTC 2011


Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58:
> On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exley<zexley at 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?
Thanks,
	Nemo



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