> From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org]
> We need to be very careful here. I dont know the german laws, > but in many > countries a donation is only tax deductible if given to a non-profit > foundation (like apache), as soon as the money is "earmarked" > "targeted" > they are not considered given to the foundation and therefore not > deductible. > > The background for it is very clear, the tax offices dont > want companies to > start a project within a non-profit foundation, and thereby > get immediate > tax release (donation is released same year as given). If a > company does > development it is considered an invested and the tax release > comes over > typically 3-5 years. You are absolutely right . It is needless to mention at the moment details, because I did not intend with my suggestion that we should do something in the short term . I myself am but well informed about these legal issues because they concerned us at the German OOo-community and because we are familiar in the third party project http://www.prooo-box.org with it. In addition, I would point out that we in the AOO community also have a right German attorney, Michael (its committer id is "mikeadvo"). Gretings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
