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Depends on what you do. Officially collecting donations (other than a small coin box or something like that) or registering demonstrations etc. is likely not legal/possible in your country without registering your organization with the government.
A non registered organization is really just a group of people... aside from current potential Covid-19 regulations there is likely nothing illegal about meeting in a group, but options for more formalized organizing will be limited.
What might be possible is to register a organization through a legal representative. That way your name doesn't show up on most documents etc. but ultimately of course your legal representative will still know it.
if you saw my previous post, this community definitely needs support like donations if were gonna do more ambitious software projects and to maintain the servers and website domains, etc.
so what you're saying basically donations to an unregistered organization is illegal then.
I would definitely choose the option to not give out any personal info, but maybe if there's someone I can trust to represent then It's fine.
IANAL and obviously depends on the country, but yes. You can of course collect gifts or donations as a natural individual, but then it is basically counted towards your personal income and taxes etc apply.
I'm planning on mainly using monero donations for privacy, other cryptocurrency has a pretty bad privacy model. idk if they'll manage to tax that lol
You also need to be able to spend it, with usually implies giving your name and with larger sums also where that money comes from (anti money laundering laws).
IMHO it is unrealistic to run a non-mafia like organization anonymously.
P.S.: Don't do crypto-currency (inlcuding Monero). All pretty much a scam and actually detrimental to human society and the environment.
why do you think that crypto is bad? everyone else thinks that fiat is worse, that it's shady where the value Is coming from.
I haven't researched much about it but that take is nothing that I heard of.
There are a lot of reasons why it is a fundamentally bad idea. Too much to explain here ;) And I am not even (mainly) talking about the horrible environmental impact they have.
But if you want to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend reading/listening to this for a general overview of what money actually is and why trying to replace the current fiat currencies (as bad as they are) with crypto-currencies (aka fake gold standard / slaver's coins) is a really, really bad idea.
Personally, I still think that crypto is much, much better for privacy reasons. and It's kind of not going away any time soon, I think fiat money is worse for the environment also.
but otherwise, I'll jump into the rabbit hole then, I'm curious what all this is about.
Bitcoin (and most other cryptocurrencies) isn't anonymous at all, in fact it publically lists all your monetary interactions for anyone to see, and correlating your cryptographic identities with your true identity at the entry/exit point is quite trivial. Monero might be better in that regard, but if you want to do anonymous payments, actual cash (as in coins and paper bills) is still by far the best.
I'm talking about monero obviously
edit; one problem for cash, you can't transfer large sums of money easily. and cash is still made of paper. and if I want to give someone money anonymously, It's not as convenient as crypto since you have to meet in person.
It's easier to use monero to anonymize the money also.
They can't prove to me that I'm doing money laundering if I'm using monero lol, and I don't care that much because I'm not doing illegal stuff anyway.
They might not be able to prove it, but any normal business will refuse to do business with you as they also fall under money laundering laws and can't just point to you as the source (as the money laundering laws rightfully include provisions against strawman schemes).
ugh, fine, the alphabet boys wanna file against me? than be it, when the time comes that happens, I'll deal with it, I'm not clearly in the wrong here.
well with that said I'll have one person represent me for my community organization and I'll move to the EU for GDPR if they want file against me, then they won't use that data for nefarious things.
Actually you could be doing something illegal : tax fraud. Depends the country but you should be expected to pay revenue on income whether in the "official money" or crypto like Monero. (Basically they expect a little maths to calculate the conversion rate and then tax that. I think in France it's considered property so it's a flat tax after x amount.
I'll basically just have to pay tax, It's no big deal then