SPI branch in Spain

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo]

El día 11 ene 2003, Peter Vandenabeele escribía:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:57:11PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > El día 10 ene 2003, Peter Vandenabeele escribía:
> > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:59:45AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:18:18PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > > > >   The other problem is that bank fees for money transfers are quite
> > > > >   high. Although they have reduced since Euro introduction, they're
> > > > >   high and a big load for little donations. EU Comission is right now
> > > > >   pressing banks to reduce them, so they will tend to be lower. Anyway,
> > > > >   this leaves out any country out of the Euro zone.
> > > > 
> > > > I have heard (anybody to confirm) that bank fees will be reduced
> > > > starting on 1st July 2003 for the Euro zone. By this date a money transfer 
> > > > between for example Spain and Germany should cost the same as a money transfer 
> > > > from Spain to Spain.
> > > 
> > > I can confirm that both for private and for commercial accounts
> > > the fees for Electronic Money Transfer will be the same national 
> > > or within the EU (I checked explictely with Fortis on that one).
> > > 
> > > Condition is that the person that sends the money uses the 
> > > universal IBAN number for the account of the addressee of the
> > > money. Of course, they compensate that with higher fees for all 
> > > money transfers.
> > 
> >   But this doesn't solve tax issues.
> 
> What are exactly the "tax issues" ?
> 
> Do you want the donations to be tax-deductible, such as those to
> a charity, such as e.g. the Red Cross ?

  I have been reading a bit more, and finally I have understood some
  things I hadn't very clear.


> Do you want this to be the case in the single country of the EU
> where the Not For Profit (SPI Spain in this case ?) is located 
> or all accross Europe ?

  If we can create/reuse an association for the whole Europe, that's
  much better, now that transfer fees are reduced to national levels (I
  didn't kew if that was sure yet, or only a proposal). Other different
  thing is if SPI prefers to stay with ffis (I don't have anything
  personal against this), or create an European brach.

  What I was wondering is if a donation made to ffis is tax deductable
  as it's a donation to Red Cross, or not. As I read the Spanish law,
  that could be made, as are recognized as so a lot of types of associations
  (cultural, sports, scientific, investigation promotion, medioambiental
  defense and others more aimed to disable people, or with other social
  goals)

> 
> Do you have other tax issues ?

  No.
 
  Thanks

-- 
  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     jsogo at debian.org
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