[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

Sat Dec 31 17:31:58 UTC 2011

Seriously, get over it.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 31 December 2011 15:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58:
> >> On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exley<zexley at wikimedia.org>  wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone -
> >>>
> >>> It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in
> the
> >>> banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all.
> It's
> >>> hard to find the right balance.
> >>
> >> This banner isn't just annoying, it is untrue. You can make a tax
> >> deductible donation tomorrow just as easily as you can make it today.
> >> It will get deducted off next year's taxes, not this year's, but
> >> unless you are trying to reduce your tax bill to zero that makes
> >> absolutely no difference.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with USA deducibility (the WMF legal department doesn't
> > give advice either ;)
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations ), so
> > could you explain this point?
> > Aren't there annual limits to deductible amounts?
>
> I'm not particularly familiar with USA tax law either. In the UK, I
> believe you are simply limited by your taxable income - you end up
> paying negative tax. If there are other limits that apply in the USA,
> then my point still stands - unless you are already planning to max
> out your limit next year, it makes essentially no difference if you
> deduct your donation from this year's taxes or next year's. Whatever
> the limits are, I doubt many donors are expecting to be anywhere near
> them.
>
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