commit 1b1870d57a1324a471ee50b3d163e1a63ac11012
parent f0edd3c79426445d4cfb93e43353050590e15870
Author: Jonathan <ondesmartenot@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:48:20 +0800
Chapter 2: small rewordings for grammar and clarity
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1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/requirements.tex b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/requirements.tex
@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@ current legal requirements across the world on how taxation on donations work.
Taxation is predictably unpopular, despite its clear essential function in
modern society, and therefore a very political topic that makes both
fiscal legislation and the way it is interpreted subject to frequent change and
-much variation. Just like taxation on labor and profits, on property, on
-inheritance, on income from investment or gambling, or on consumption of
-products or services -- there is no universal agreement on whether
-donations should be taxed or tax-deductable,
-let alone on how that should be done. Ad hoc
+much variation. Just like taxation on labor and profits, property,
+inheritance, investment or gambling income, and consumption of
+products and services, there is no universal agreement on how or whether
+donations should be treated with respect to taxation. Ad hoc
regulation as part of political shifts makes tax rules {\em context-specific}
and {\em temporal}. We are unaware of any attempt even by
large stakeholders at providing such an overview as an up-to-date public
@@ -27,9 +26,9 @@ resource, and the cost of creating and subsequently maintaining such an effort
is actually prohibitive due to the need to cover many different jurisdictions
with in-depth fiscal expertise in an ongoing manner.
-Instead the focus of this section is only on providing an overview of
-generic requirements that {\em could} be made to a donation flow in
-order to comply with regulation.
+The goal of this section is instead only to provide an overview of
+generic requirements that {\em could} be applied to a donation flow in
+order to comply with regulations.
One should note that, in many jurisdictions, the {\em receiving end} of
donations does not necessarily have or need the same protections as the
