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Good clarification, I'm sure the author will see this. And your suspicion is correct, he lives in Europe.

I wonder where in Europe he lives, since paying a salary to employees at charities is quite common in most countries I can think of.

Ghost is based in the UK - where Charities can pay some people but, most notably, not the trustees who run it. Apologies for not making that clearer!

Indeed, http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/working-at-oxfam...

at the moment he lives in Linz, Austria (Europe)

The author's comments aren't correct for the UK, either. He writes:

"A charity (except in special circumstances) cannot pay a salary to anyone."

Charities ( unincorporated, companies or CIOs ) can of course pay salaries, it's how they attract good people to work on the boring back-office stuff.

For example, the British Red Cross ( registered charity 220949 ) has an advertisement at the moment for an Admin Suport Manager, £21,783 - £28,046 per annum + benefits.

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