Money gateway

From: Walter Vermeir <[email protected]>
>Because Paypall is not perfect and there is no
>Wikimedia bankaccount to 
>do a "normal payment" by banktransfer (at least that
>is for me the most 
>normal way) what about using a non-wikimedia
>bankaccount?

>When ther is one widely know and respected member of
a >Wikipedia in the 
>EU who can recieve money on his personal account and
>tranfers it to the 
>paypall-account. It is not a very good system but it
>makes it much more 
>easy to do a donation. In the EURO-zone payments can
>be done like a  normal payment whit the IBAN
>accountnumber and BIC code.

>A money gateway can also be setup on a local
Wikipedia >level. Every Wikipedia who it wants can
select a >trustworthy local member to recieve 
>and send the money to wikimedia by paypall.

>The benefit is that the donations can be done by use
>of a local national bankaccount. The system of
>EURO-zone money transfers whit the IBAN and 
>BIC code is still very new and unknown by most users.

>Much more change of a donation when it is easy to
make >a payment.

>This is of course a very sensitif thing. To do this
>explicit autorisation must be given by "Wikimedia" to
>act like a money gateway for Wikimedia.

>What do you think?

>Walter

Hello Walter

I think that your tax system is probably much more
lenient than ours for you to think of doing in this. I
for one, would *never* accept to do it, because I know
presumably I would have the income taxes police on the
back within a year :-)

So similar reasons, I would not do it with anyone else
being the trusted one, even if I trust him/her
totally. Because of the risk.

In any case, this could perhaps do for small donations
of wikipediholic, but absolutely not for bigger (let's
dream a bit) groups (and bigger donations).

I guess that unless Jimbo can somehow set up a bank
account in euros, or unless we do not help finding
subsidies, or unless we purchase a second credit card
(and in France, this is *not* free), the only way is
to have a legal structure (association) in one
european country, which will be legally authorized to
receive donations, will pay taxes on the amounts, and
can send them to the main office (le "siège social").
Till now,  at least for french people, I see no other
way.

But I suppose that before this kind of structure is
set up, people will have to find other ways. Might be
for quite a while. 

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