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Jason Clifford <jason@domgen.com> writes:
> So if a person in Cape Town, S. Africa donates $100 to the FSF in the US
> who then give the money to Alan Cox in the UK (by paying the money to his
> UK Ltd company I expect as that is his income vehicle) the tax laws of S.
> Africa, the US (which potentially means both US state and federal tax laws
> although I am not familiar with the situation over the pond so this is a
> guess) and the UK have to be applied. The potential exists for the money
> to be taxed 3 times under certain circumstances!

It's crazy, and I think you might be right that all the tax laws apply
from the various countries, but I'm not sure it's that crazy. 

IANAL either, but I think most countries have tax treaties that try to
minimize double taxation.  When I was a US citizen living in the UK, I
was paid by a grant from an agency in Tokyo through a bank in
Strasbourg that sent ecu's (e.g. one step up from monopoly money) to a
bank in London for me.  Despite the twisted international chain, I
filed only US federal and state taxes. The US/UK tax treaty meant that
I didn't have to pay UK income taxes, and the source of the money
(Tokyo or Strasbourg) didn't affect me.

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- Sean Eddy
- Dept. of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
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