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What is the difference between asking a company to pay for the electric bill and asking for money to pay the bills?
by shin_lao 13y ago
What is the difference between asking a company to pay for the electric bill and asking for money to pay the bills?
- pedrocr 13y ago>That way the various OpenBSD efforts can be supported, yet written off as an off-site operations cost by such a company. Tax reasons it appears. Maybe they don't have non-profit status and so a donation can't be put in as a cost before tax but an electricity bill can.
- lflux 13y agoThere's OpenBSD Foundation, which is non-profit but not tax-deductible apparently: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
- cperciva 13y agonon-profit but not tax-deductible FWIW, this is because Canada is far more restrictive than the USA in terms of what constitutes a "charitable purpose". The FreeBSD Foundation would not be able to give charitable-donation tax receipts if it were Canadian either.
- shin_lao 13y agoI'm surprised that giving "free electricity" isn't seen as a donation.