ADMIN: Happy New Year, BUT ...

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Dear Members,

Of course I do wish you an Happy New Year, and the best for 2005, but my mind is

unable to celebrate it, as certainly yours is also.

This idea came to my mind last night, while I couldn't sleep because of all

these images coming back to my mind.

While I'm sure that a Charity ProZ Fund would be a nice idea, but is technically

and legally difficult to implement right now, maybe there's something that every

of us can do, at our small scale, and I've decided to do it, and I think that

every of you can adapt this idea according to his/her country tax/commercial law

:

i.e. on each invoice for works done from december 26th untill a date to

determine at your own discretion(in my case, I'd like to do it through at least

the first quarter of 2005), we can indicate that such percent total amount due

to us by clients (following the European tax law, it can be from 1 % up to 5% of

the annual turnover in many countries) will be, after payment, sent to such or

such NGO or GO. Personnally, I've chosen the Direction of Humanitary Aid (DAH)

managed by the French Ministry of External affairs, in order to avoid problems

with the Tax Office ; furthermore, every donation to this association must be

sent or brought directly to the Tax Office General Accountant (Trésorerie

Générale), so no contestation is possible. The problem is that today, Dec. 31st,

every office was closed in my little province, and I still don't know what is

the exact percentage that I'm allowed to use this way.*

By this way, I think that we can send directly money to the associations and,

furthermore, as the law will oblige us to explain it on each invoice, it may

boost direct and spontaneous donations from our clients to the association we

have chosen and the URL of which will be, necessarily and mandatorily, printed

on every invoice.

Sorry for my bad English, and I'm aware that it takes me too much words to

express a very simple idea in a language which is not mine, but I think it could

be a clue for those who want to help.

* Note : It's clear that we want to help, but I think that we don't want to be

ourselves in the " sheet " :-) at the end of the year because we should have done

something illegal and be over-taxed for that. Because, in such a case, we

coulodn't help anymore, and could become the ones needing help to survive.

Hope you will all understand the content of this message.

GUILLIAUMET - France

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