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_ News Worth Discussing _ Estonian Wikipedia Makes Case for Tax Exemption - ERR News

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Estonian Wikipedia is suing the government because of changed rules that deny Wikipedia tax exemption status as a non-governmental, philanthropic organization. "A few years ago, the Tax Board changed its way of selecting charities for the tax exemption ...

http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=delPE2ypoAs2WrM

Posted by: thekohser

Sounds like the Estonian government is more adept than the UK Charity Commission at spotting phony, nonsense "charities" like Wikimedia Foundation spin-off branches.

Posted by: Fusion

QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 9th January 2012, 4:49pm) *

Sounds like the Estonian government is more adept than the UK Charity Commission at spotting phony, nonsense "charities" like Wikimedia Foundation spin-off branches.

Then again, the Estonian Wikipedia is a model that the English one would do well to emulate.