Donated $100.23 (the integral part via PayPal and the fractional part via Causes.com “Give a Minute”).
Here is a donation-related complaint: please offer some way I could (in conscience) write this off as a business expense. As it is, I had to donate on my personal credit card, which raises a non-trivial inconvenience. When I write something off as business-related, it gets deducted from income, in other words I don’t pay income tax on it.
Suggestion: offer rationality-related eBooks or subscription videos or something similar, which can be written off as “documentation” by an independent professional able to claim rationality material as a business expense. (For instance, talk to Alexandros who has just started a mailing list on “rationality and startups”. Material so labeled would clearly be a business expense. Or “rationality and marketing”, and so on.)
In France the notion of “charity” is tied to a restrictive list of associations so recognized by the state; a donation is tax-deductible only if to one of these organizations. I’ve donated e.g. to Unicef on a tax-deductible basis.
That will not apply to my donations to SIAI. (On the other hand, I can’t (yet) bring myself to think of SIAI as a charity. I donate mainly to encourage the continued existence of LessWrong.com—if the promotion of rationality is “spun off” to a daughter organization as the SIAI strategic plan suggests that’s what I will continue donating to in the short term.)
Donated $100.23 (the integral part via PayPal and the fractional part via Causes.com “Give a Minute”).
Here is a donation-related complaint: please offer some way I could (in conscience) write this off as a business expense. As it is, I had to donate on my personal credit card, which raises a non-trivial inconvenience. When I write something off as business-related, it gets deducted from income, in other words I don’t pay income tax on it.
Suggestion: offer rationality-related eBooks or subscription videos or something similar, which can be written off as “documentation” by an independent professional able to claim rationality material as a business expense. (For instance, talk to Alexandros who has just started a mailing list on “rationality and startups”. Material so labeled would clearly be a business expense. Or “rationality and marketing”, and so on.)
Did you donate to a registered charity? Does your government exempt you from paying income tax on charitable donation?
In France the notion of “charity” is tied to a restrictive list of associations so recognized by the state; a donation is tax-deductible only if to one of these organizations. I’ve donated e.g. to Unicef on a tax-deductible basis.
That will not apply to my donations to SIAI. (On the other hand, I can’t (yet) bring myself to think of SIAI as a charity. I donate mainly to encourage the continued existence of LessWrong.com—if the promotion of rationality is “spun off” to a daughter organization as the SIAI strategic plan suggests that’s what I will continue donating to in the short term.)