Hello Drew, Le Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:21:04 -0500, drew <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 17:52 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > The Steering Committee would like to provide you an update regarding > > the status of the establishment of our Foundation. > > > > We have spent quite some time evaluating the legal, fiscal, > > financial and practical options that were available to us. > > Assessing these took us considerable efforts and the involvement of > > lawyers we would like to thank. > > > > We finally came to the following decision. We will incorporate a > > Foundation in Germany (called "Stiftung" in German) in early 2011. A > > german foundation will provide us with many advantages of various > > kinds, among them, 100% tax-deductible donations. > > Hello Charles, et al. > > "100% tax-deductible donations." > > Just to be clear here, you mean that donations to this foundation will > be deductible by the individual making the donation? > > _or_ > > The foundation will incur no tax-liability by receiving monetary > donations? Donations, provided you are under the German tax law (you live in Germany or have a subsidiary in German) will be 100% tax deductible by you. That fiscal advantage might, depending on the ongoing legal works surrounding one common law for European Foundation, be extended to other european memberstates. > > > > > > In order to incorporate there we will however need some initial > > capital and resources (around fifty thousand (50,000) Euros). If we > > do not manage to collect this sum in a reasonable amount of time, > > we will switch to our second best option and incorporate a charity > > in the United Kingdom, which is much cheaper. > > Could you put some sort of time-frame to "reasonable"? > > [just your folks thoughts on what reasonable is here] I don't really know, but if we're stuck with 3 thousand bucks at the end of February it might be time to reconsider options. (that's just my own perception). > > > > > > We will of course keep you updated. Meanwhile, the donations to the > > German OOoDEV association are still accepted and much welcome ! > > > > The last days of 2010 will be busy with Season's Holidays as well as > > the release of LibreOffice 3.3 and the LibreOffice website. > > > > Until 2011, we wish you all the best for the New Year. > > Thanks to all the SC members for their efforts here. And happy new year to you, thank you for your efforts! Best, Charles. > > Best wishes, > > Drew > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
