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It sounds like the problem you hear with restaurants wanting to give away unused, clean food to shelters, but forbidden by the health department.
by underseacables 6y ago
It sounds like the problem you hear with restaurants wanting to give away unused, clean food to shelters, but forbidden by the health department.
- josefx 6y agoIn Germany a tax office once got the great idea to collect taxes on food donations based on the cost of ingredients. As far as the law was concerned this was the correct way to handle a food donation, most tax offices just didn't consider it. The issue got resolved, but for some time any business that wanted to be on the safe side had to "sell" its donation for the symbolic price of one Mark. Early on this also resulted in businesses throwing away food instead of donating it.
- SamBam 6y agoAre charitable donations taxed in Germany?
- josefx 6y agoOnly as a side effect of existing taxes. When you buy food and then donate it you pay consumer centered taxes at the point of sale. When a company gives away food for free there was apparently a regulation that applied the taxes on the ingredients instead and in this case the tax office decided that this also applied to donations.