Well if the organization gets dinged for VAT, it doesn't make much sense to run the payments through Europe then. Are we sure VAT applies to this scenario? <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 27, 2017 17:01, "Tobias Ellinghaus" <<a href="mailto:houz@gmx.de">houz@gmx.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am Montag, 27. November 2017, 16:41:01 CET schrieb Frank Trampe: > 19% is a rather hefty cut. I would be happy to volunteer some time to save > some money. > > Soenke, could we get a discount from K8 if we submit a final list ourselves? Quoting Soenke: > that is what overhead charges cover. For K8, it's 15 % f research-related > projects (national or EU funds commonly include overhead flats between 20 > and 25 % per cent). > > The tax rate depends on whether we are talking donation (tax free, but also > no mention of donor allowed) or sponsoring (usually 19%). it seems the 19% are the share for the German government and nothing Soenke can give discounts on. Unless you want to see LGM in the next Panama Papers. Tobias [...] _______________________________________________ Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list <a href="mailto:Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org">Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting</a> </blockquote></div>