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Provide tax-compliant donation receipts

Open MartinDelille opened this issue 9 years ago • 8 comments

It'll be nice to handle automatic CERFA generation for project that can benefit it. Of course this is totally specific to France, but it could be a starting point.

Here is the CERFA document: https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/files/media/1_metier/2_professionnel/EV/2_gestion/230_association/titre_dons_organisme_interet_general.pdf

We'll need real users identity (not pseudo).

MartinDelille avatar Jul 22 '16 11:07 MartinDelille

Tagging as Blocked by #271.

Changaco avatar Jul 22 '16 12:07 Changaco

I don't think it is related to revealing the identity. I think the real identity should be an option that could be keep hidden and used only for the CERFA generation.

MartinDelille avatar Jul 22 '16 12:07 MartinDelille

Delivering the receipt to the donor requires revealing their identity to the nonprofit that received the money. #271 is about breaking anonymity in a different way though, so I guess this is a related but separate issue.

Changaco avatar Jul 22 '16 12:07 Changaco

Yes indeed!

MartinDelille avatar Jul 22 '16 13:07 MartinDelille

For instance Framasoft is a “public utility” non-profit organization in France, so you can have a refund on your taxes up to 66 % of your donation to them. But not through Liberapay, which is a blocker for me to use this service when it comes to giving to such organizations.

ArchangeGabriel avatar Dec 27 '17 12:12 ArchangeGabriel

Relevant blog post from Donorbox: How to Create a 501(c)(3) Tax-Compliant Donation Receipt.

Changaco avatar Jan 16 '19 11:01 Changaco

Another relevant data point: Intra-EU tax-deductible donations are possible. There is a decision no. C-318/07 from 2009-01-27 by European Court of Justice (ECJ) that basically says that tax-deductible donations to charitable organizations must be possible independent of whether the recipient is inside the same member state or in a different member state of the European Union.

It seems that this is not yet really relevant in practice, as one would still have to prove that a charitable organization registered in one country would also be considered charitable according to the laws of ones own jurisdiction. But still – there is at least in principle a way to have tax-deductible donations going to other EU member states.

tanius avatar Jan 14 '20 20:01 tanius

French nonprofits which provide the kind of receipts this issue is about are now obligated to declare them to the state.

Associations : obligation de déclaration des dons et reçus avant le 31 décembre 2022

A warning about that should be added to Liberapay once generating the receipts is implemented.

Changaco avatar Nov 03 '22 08:11 Changaco