We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation. Earlier this year we went through a successful tax audit, which in fact resulted in some favourable adjustments as we’ve been paying too much tax. Our tax advisor immediately submitted an appeal to the decision, but so far, we have no new information.
Pretty silly for something literally used by the European Union and other European Governments. Am I right in thinking the German Government is one of those?
Insanely bizarre, Germany has historically been pro-open source and the EU was just saying that the Fediverse is here to stay.
Could you provide a source for the second part? I’m genuinely interested
Thanks!
That doesn’t change the fact that the US has de facto control over most of the web infrastructure
I know they were already in the process of the 501c but that’s really gotta come as a bummer.
They’ll lose a lot of donors in the EU if they can’t keep that non-profit status.
