On 02/07/12 21:28, Jelle Hermsen wrote: > On 07/02/2012 12:17 PM, Siju George wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado >> <i...@juanfra.info> wrote: >>> For deduce taxes from donations, the dragonfly project needs create a >>> non-profit organization and this is something complex and time >>> consuming. >>> >> OpenBSD project hesitated for a long time due to the same reason. The >> I guess developer Bob Beck to the initnksative to start the OpenBSD >> foundation. If some body needs info on how to do this I guess he might >> be able to help. >> >> Thanks >> >> Siju > I think there are two important distinctions to make here. First the > OpenBSD foundation is based in Canada, and secondly they are not a > registered charity because of the paperwork and overhead this would > cause. Being a non-profit doesn't automatically make your donations > tax-deductible. In our case this would mean, on top of starting a > non-profit, we would need to apply for 501(c)(3) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization#501.28c.29.283.29> > status. Regarding the paperwork and administration, starting a > non-profit is relatively easy, and achieving and maintaining a > charitable status is hard. > > However if we just started a non-profit we could start accepting > donations without an individual (i.e. Matthew Dillon) being personally > responsible for the taxes, potentially creating a difficult > bookkeeping situation for him solely. > > We could just start a non-profit so we can start accept donations > right now and get to tax-deductibility later on. I'm not an American > citizen (I'm Dutch), but if we do decide to start a non-profit I would > be more that willing to help sort everything out.
Something like this could be handy: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/misery Regards, David. > > Cheers, > Jelle >
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