[Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

Aww, bureaucracy!

I think 80G is nice to have, but shouldnt stop us. Also we are not probably
looking at large scale(We would love if they come), but typically my
equivalents to 5 10 20 dollors would 250 500 1000 INR for which most would
not take trouble of getting receipts and eventually getting the
benefit(Atleast the folks who do online donations) since the tax benefit
would be negligible.

So my next question is without which are we eligible to collect donations
online, would just like to know the bureaucracy around it? I now know the
chapter can receive donations through NEFT[1].If we are good to go then the
next thing to work out would be a payment gateway / payments partner helping
us in giving options to various bank netbanking / credit/debit cards,
ofcourse a decent API. The more the merrier. Also if we could get some
sponsorship/deal from them in terms of the cut they take for transaction
cost. People who have experience with online payment solutions can add their
inputs.

[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/9/92/Wikimedia_Donation_Form.pdf

Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 22:21, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org> wrote:

> Hey Srikanth:
>
> Timely reminder - but as always, bureaucracy is a stumbling block. 80G
> registration takes a long time - we can only apply around 6 months
> after registration and so this is going to take a while longer.
>
> =(
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> ________
> http://social.prathambooks.org/
>
>
>
>
> On 13 June 2011 21:28, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am writing this mail to ask Chapter folks / Wikimedians experienced in
> > Global Fundraising as to get some information on our preparedness to
> support
> > INR currency in the Global Fundraising initiative which would be up later
> > this year. I am under impression, Chapter is one of the pre-requisite.
> Now
> > that we have a Chapter and that it has a bank account, I would like to
> know
> > what else would it take to support INR this year. I would appreciate if
> > Chapter takes this up as a key project(I dont see this listed currently)
> and
> > helps in this since it is largely in legal / administration thing. I hope
> > the community would always do its part, be it translating the banners,
> > things which can be done by individual contributors.
> >
> > * Providing support to donations in INR is 1st priority
> > * Optionally providing tax rebate under donations, would attract more
> > donors.
> >
> > Regards
> > Srikanth.L
> >
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