Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
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.dal...@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 em...@mikepeel.net: See http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php? id=2876pg=15cat=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? ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
2009/6/1 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sw...@hotmail.co.uk: 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. The bit where they say we run the Wikipedia UK website is more of a problem, I think. The fact that we don't run Wikipedia is extremely important. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
The author has now corrected the article. I've also added a paragraph to our website to try to explain this a bit better in general; tweaks to that text would be more than welcome. Thanks, Mike On 1 Jun 2009, at 14:53, Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/6/1 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sw...@hotmail.co.uk: 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. The bit where they say we run the Wikipedia UK website is more of a problem, I think. The fact that we don't run Wikipedia is extremely important. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
2009/6/1 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: The author has now corrected the article. I've also added a paragraph to our website to try to explain this a bit better in general; tweaks to that text would be more than welcome. Much improved! Do we credit you with that? ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Charity Finance news article: Wikimedia UK denied charitable tax status
2009/6/1 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Credit the author. :-) I merely pointed out the issues, and explained things. Nevertheless, good work! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
