Donations policy
Volt Austria is committed to upholding high ethical standards and transparency beyond the legal requirements when dealing with donations.
Donation and transparency guidelines:
According to § 2 Z5 PartG, a donation is any payment, benefit in kind or living subsidy that you - as a natural or legal person - grant us without receiving anything in return.
Donations (in the sense of the PartG) do not include, in particular, membership fees and donations in connection with events with a value of up to €100 per person and event, insofar as these are not subject to the cash register obligation.
According to § 6 (6) of the Austrian PartG, we may only accept donations in accordance with the following requirements:
For donations that exceed a total of €2,500 per year, we are obliged to publish the identity of the donor.
We can accept a maximum of €7,500 per year from each donor.
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to accept your donation in the following cases (non-exhaustive list)
from public corporations,
from non-profit organizations as defined by the Income Tax Act and sports clubs,
from companies and institutions in which the public sector holds at least 25%,
from foreign natural or legal persons (also from other member states),
if they are made in cash and exceed €500,
from anonymous donors if the donation exceeds €500,
if the donation was recognizably forwarded by an unnamed third party, if it amounts to more than €500,
donations that are made in expectation of a consideration or a specific economic or legal advantage
Illegal donations are immediately forwarded to the Court of Audit.