donau

Donation authority for GNU Taler (experimental)
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commit e58d57acaf279af913f4e522406906499bc4dfd4
parent 15f1c41f9cd502cd7d86974c6a88db0c848a1098
Author: Casaburi Johannes <johannes.casaburi@students.bfh.ch>
Date:   Mon,  3 Jun 2024 16:07:40 +0200

rework goals

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Mdoc/thesis/chapters/introduction/goals.tex | 13++++++++++---
Mdoc/thesis/thesis.pdf | 0
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/thesis/chapters/introduction/goals.tex b/doc/thesis/chapters/introduction/goals.tex @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ \section{Goals} -The goal of this bachelor thesis is to assess the current situation in the area of donation deduction and to formulate and implement a solution for the problems described above. The main goals are the following: +The goal of this bachelor thesis is to assess how donations currently work, and to develop and implement a protocol, that aims to improve and standardize how donations are verified and conducted. The Donau should be implemented as free software. +One of the main goals the Donau aims to protect the donors privacy. The donor should still be able to deduct the donations he made from taxes. He should be able to do so without revealing more information than needed to the tax authority. All the tax authority needs is proof that the donation is legitimate. + +The tax authority should be able to easly verify the donations by scanning a QR-Code. +This QR-Code is generated by the donor and contains all the proof needed to deduct the donation from taxes. +By merging multiple donations throughout the year into a single QR-Code, the donor has to only safeguard this QR-Code which could be printed out as a backup. Instead of storing multiple different donation receipts on paper which are easly lost. This should be a significant impovement in user convienience for both the donor and tax authority. + +The Donau should prevent donation fraud with fake, expired or third-party donations. It should maintain a list of recognized charites, in order to prevent donations to non charitable organizations. The Donau should keeps track of the income generated by donations for each charity, to enforce donation limits according to local law and to prevent donation fraud. + +The goals described above boil down to the following: \begin{itemize} \item Protect the donors privacy and still be able to deduct the amount from the taxes. \item Make donations verfiable by simply scanning a QR-Code. @@ -8,5 +17,3 @@ The goal of this bachelor thesis is to assess the current situation in the area \item Prevent donation fraud with fake, expired or third-party donations. \end{itemize} -%free software - diff --git a/doc/thesis/thesis.pdf b/doc/thesis/thesis.pdf Binary files differ.