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Article #935Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)
From: Decklin Foster
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
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Jason Clifford <jason@domgen.com> writes: > If one the other hand an organisation such as people are suggesting is > collecting and then paying out on the basis of reward for work then it is > no longer a gift but payment for a gift or service. It really wouldn't suprise me if the tax laws were so nonsensical. :( Say that if I do unslolicited work on some software for the GNU project. six months later someone uses it and decides they really like it, and donates to the FSF, because it's tax-deductible. What if a portion of that money goes to me to compensate for my time? It would immediately seem that the FSF has to pay a gift tax, but this seems unfair for a non-profit charity. What's the real story with the tax laws here? IANAL. -- please read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org> Subject: Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development) Date: 1998/11/17 Message-ID: <m3vhket8c2.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 412874811 Sender: decklin@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <729n4t$jbe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <72b6c0$16v$8@blue.hex.net> <xzqlnlc9tgn.fsf_-_@uni-paderborn.de> <72qlmn$n0o$6@blue.hex.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.981117090737.21281H-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> Organization: @Home Network X-URL: http://decklin.base.org/ NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:43:31 PDT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss