Re: SPI branch in Spain

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

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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
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