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Article #937Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:00
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Decklin Foster wrote: > 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. It is much worse than you suspect. Because Open Source development is a truely international adventure the tax laws of the state in which each person is resident (and potentially their nationality state as well if they are resident overseas) who is involved in the financial transaction are applied. So if a person in Cape Town, S. Africa donates $100 to the FSF in the US who then give the money to Alan Cox in the UK (by paying the money to his UK Ltd company I expect as that is his income vehicle) the tax laws of S. Africa, the US (which potentially means both US state and federal tax laws although I am not familiar with the situation over the pond so this is a guess) and the UK have to be applied. The potential exists for the money to be taxed 3 times under certain circumstances! Jason Clifford Definite Linux Systems http://definite.ukpost.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Jason Clifford <jason@domgen.com> Subject: Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development) Date: 1998/11/17 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981117203503.21975D-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> X-Deja-AN: 412913641 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <729n4t$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> <m3vhket8c2.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@starburst.uk.insnet.net X-Trace: starburst.uk.insnet.net 911339010 23925 194.205.83.146 (17 Nov 1998 21:43:30 GMT) Organization: Internet Network Services Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Nov 1998 21:43:30 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss