I’d love to donate to Lightcone ~5K€ next year, but as long as it’s not tax-deductible in France I’ll keep to French AI safety orgs as the French non-profit donation tax break is stupidly good: it can basically triple the donation amount and reduce income tax to 0.
I know that Mieux Donner, a new French effective giving org, is acting as French tax-deductible front for a number of EA organisations. I’ll contact them to check whether they could forward a donation to Lightcone and give an update under this comment.
My bad, I mistook Mieux Donner for an older organisation that was trying to setup this.
I checked online, and it does not seem that it’s possible to get the deduction for non-profits outside the EU even through a proxy, except if their action is related to France or is humanitarian.
I’d love to donate to Lightcone ~5K€ next year, but as long as it’s not tax-deductible in France I’ll keep to French AI safety orgs as the French non-profit donation tax break is stupidly good: it can basically triple the donation amount and reduce income tax to 0.
I know that Mieux Donner, a new French effective giving org, is acting as French tax-deductible front for a number of EA organisations. I’ll contact them to check whether they could forward a donation to Lightcone and give an update under this comment.
My bad, I mistook Mieux Donner for an older organisation that was trying to setup this.
I checked online, and it does not seem that it’s possible to get the deduction for non-profits outside the EU even through a proxy, except if their action is related to France or is humanitarian.
Source: https://www.centre-francais-fondations.org/dons-transnationaux/
Alas, thank you for looking into it.
Update: Seems definitely not possible to get tax deduction in France for an American organisation.
This post from Don Efficace, the organisation which was trying to set up EA regranting in France, explains what are the constraints for the French tax deduction: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jWhFmavJ9cE2zE585/procedure-to-allow-donations-to-european-organizations-to-be
That would be great! Let’s hope they say yes :)