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On 01/17/2012 06:48 AM, Stephen Leibowitz wrote:
The LibreOffice and Document Foundation websites each have a donation
page. I think they should mention if money contributions from US
sources qualify as tax deductions. This would be most useful in the
English language version of the websites.

I am guessing that the following methods would not currently qualify:
    PayPal donations to donations@documentfoundation.org
    Donations sent to Freies Office Deutschland e.V. and marked “The
Document Foundation”


PayPal donations may be used somehow, since I have heard of people using PayPal for their online payments. It is the other end that needs to be properly listed in the PayPal receipt documentation so it shows it is going as a donation and not just to buy something. You just have to get it to read and show properly for the tax people to know that it was a deductible donation.

As for the below list, it has the "charitable" name in that list. Is TDF a charity or a "foundation" that you can use for tax deductions for your donations? That is a big difference.


Another method is contributions to Software in the Public Interest
(SPI) that are marked for use by The Document Foundation. This seems
more likely to qualify, but should be confirmed. The LibreOffice
website lists SPI as a channel for contributions. The Document
Foundation website does not list SPI, and it should be added there.

Here is the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) search page for
organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable
contributions:
http://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/



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