These aren't official definitions and this isn't meant to be any kind of tax advice so always consult an accountant etc etc etc..
To clarify a few terms first, 'Tax Deductibility Status' (TDS) means any monetary donations enable the person or business donating to claim this on their personal of business tax returns. 'Tax Concessions' (TC) means if you incur a tangible cost, such as petrol, for the purposes of enabling a non-profit entity to further it's goals. Someone brought up an interesting point the other day I'd completely forgotten about, even without TDS there is a chance we would still be eligible for TC when donating time to OSM related activities. While I highly doubt you'd be able to claim your time spent on this activity you might be able to claim direct costs like petrol and depending on the primary purpose things like GPS devices, although it would definitely be a stretch trying to claim things like computers. Also it seems like a good to register an organisation now that the new tax year has just clocked over, can people please read over the proposed association rules, as they'll be submitted some time next week for incorporation, I have access to an accountant in NSW to use for this, so if no one has any objections I'll get it processed in NSW. https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZf0jIYShBc0ZGNicXR6OXZfMGdoOGsycGZi&hl=en _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au