Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2012-05-29 um 14:09 schrieb David Kastrup:

> > > > Some (most?) countries accept tax benefits only with national NPOs,
> > > > perhaps plus a few known, big international ones (like Red Cross).
> > >
> > > AFAIK, our Dutch LilyPond NPO would be fine for this.
> >
> > Oh, I didn’t know there is one. Where can I read about it?
> > (It’s not www.lilypond.nl ;-)
> > Of course, if donations to that are tax-deductible in the  
> > Netherlands,
> > the same is true for at least the whole EU.
>
> Uh, what?  Since when does the EU have a common tax system?

It doesn't, but, as I wrote in an other mail to the same thread  
yesterday:

> German laws that restricted tax benefits to national NPOs were  
> sentenced illegal by the European Court in 2009, i.e. you can at  
> least get tax benefits for donations to NPOs within the EU.

Greetlings, Hraban