donation in germany: taxes ("steuerlich absetzen")

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Hmmm... seems, on re-reading, that you may be right.

Regardless, though, you need to reply to the list...

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Tim reid wrote:
> On 7/5/05, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 
>  Block quoting from Mr. Gerlach:
> 
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> I want to make a donation for gnucash. I urgently need e.g. a
> translation to german for my secretary who can't speak english.
> 
> Can I donate money (100Euro) somewhere here in germany? - i need
> a receipt that I can use for my taxes.
> 
> I'm working with gnucash with my small business! gnucash or
> sourceforge need not to be charitable.
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> 
> I think that he was meaning "Hey, can I give you money to do a
> German-language translation of GnuCash?", rather than "Hey, if I give
> a donation to Gnucash, can I take it off my income on my taxes?"   I'm
> reading this as an "Operation Sugardaddy" type thing....
> 
> Tim
>