I have a question for any other UK folks who run small businesses, please boost for visibility:
Do you donate to open source projects? If so, how do you make these donations?
My goal for this year is to donate 1% of the business revenue, split between social/environmental charities and the vital open source projects which we rely on.
My understanding is that, in the UK context, donations to charities and non-profit organisations can only be claimed as business expenses if the recipient is registered as charitable organisation in the UK. That would exclude us from claiming pure donations (where we receive nothing in exchange for the donation) to most open source foundations as business expenses as they're registered in the USA or Europe.
Many open source foundations offer "memberships" at different tiers for businesses but these are all well outside of our budget as a two person micro business.
Donating as a non business expense would need to be done after tax which would reduce the amount we can donate.
Am I missing something?
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@pbarker I don’t donate to generic projects (e.g. libraries), but if I use an open source product, and they have a suggested donation in lieu of a licensing price, then I usually pay that as a business expense. Although I’ve not checked with my accountant if that should be logged in a different way to a purchase - in my head it just counted as a software purchase.
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