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The "Please note that the CCC e.V. is not formally recognised as a non-profit organisation" part is a bad translation - this one is related to the German tax co

The "Please note that the CCC e.V. is not formally recognised as a non-profit organisation" part is a bad translation - this one is related to the German tax code. To put it short: there are two different kinds of NPOs, first "regular" e.V. and then those e.V. that fulfill exclusively "aims for the common good" ("gemeinnützige Zwecke", the full list is in §52 AO [1]) - they carry a special benefit: donations can be deducted from your income for tax purposes. The CCC is a non-profit organization, but since it (among other things) engages in taking political stances while at the same time not being a political party, it is not seen as a "gemeinnützig" organization - a fate that hit quite a few organizations in the last years [2] or is looming over their head [3]. [1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ao_1977/__52.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ao_1977/__52.html [2] https://www.campact.de/ueber-campact/der-verein/ https://www.campact.de/ueber-campact/der-verein/ [3] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/brandbrief-bundeskanzler-scholz-gemeinnuetzigkeitsrecht-vereine-rechtsextremismus-100.html https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/brandbrie...

ocschwar 2y ago
I kind of envy Germany's large array of possible corporate charters for non-profits, for-profits and kinda-sorta-nonprofits. I wish America had the same menu to pick fro.
- mschuster91 2y ago
  I'll add some more confusion to your mental list: the "gemeinnützige GmbH" aka "common-good LLC" - it is allowed to undertake commercial (income-generating) activities as its main activity (unlike the e.V. which may only do commercial activities like selling stuff on a very limited basis, stuff like selling swag for example), but the proceedings must be used only for activities in the list in §52 AO as well.

ocschwar 2y ago

I kind of envy Germany's large array of possible corporate charters for non-profits, for-profits and kinda-sorta-nonprofits. I wish America had the same menu to pick fro.

mschuster91 2y ago
I'll add some more confusion to your mental list: the "gemeinnützige GmbH" aka "common-good LLC" - it is allowed to undertake commercial (income-generating) activities as its main activity (unlike the e.V. which may only do commercial activities like selling stuff on a very limited basis, stuff like selling swag for example), but the proceedings must be used only for activities in the list in §52 AO as well.