[OSM-talk] foundation affiliate revenue

Lauri Hahne lauri.hahne at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 11:57:55 BST 2007


On 28/09/2007, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Is the foundation considering charity status? It would be a great
> > incentive for corporate donations amongst other things.
>
> I think the foundation has a deal with someone else who has charity
> status so anyone who wants to hand over corporate donations can do it
> that way... don't know about the UK but over here getting charitable
> status means something like a fivefold increase in the list of things
> you must and mustn't do so it is not desirable per se ;-)

Haha. Thing really are overly complicated in some parts of the world.
Here you can start a not for profit/ideological association if you
have two other members and that makes it tax-exempt and there is even
less paper work than there would be if you founded a business.

-- 
Lauri Hahne




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