Hi Andreas, thank you for your feedback.
Before moving to Luxembourg a couple of years ago I had the same feeling about it but, as written in my proposal, I discovered that few EU countries didn't like to have Luxembourg as a competitor in tax efficiency so they pushed for and obtained huge changes in local tax laws. As you may know since a few years countries like UK, Holland and Ireland offer much better opportunities for tax "efficiency". The reasons that pushed me to propose Luxembourg, as written in the document, are more related to the fact that there is, IMHO, a good incorporation model and that it would be local to many EU institutions with which we could cooperate to promote LibreOffice in their own offices and across Europe. Belgium also offers something similar through the AISBL but I feel that Brussels is already saturated with lobbyists which would make our life impossible. Let me know if you have other questions. Paolo On 30/09/2020 10:40, Andreas Mantke wrote: > Hi, > > Am 29.09.20 um 14:59 schrieb Florian Effenberger: >> The Document Foundation >> Board of Directors Meeting 2020-09-25 >> Meeting Minutes >> > (...) >> c) form sub-group to work out and publish business entity proposals >> URL: https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3294 >> Status: Criteria list (Lothar) Draft proposal for Luxemburg entity >> (Paolo), next meeting orga(Thorsten) - >> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/NeBWm25cd2LHyoq >> Thorsten, Michael, Nicolas, Paolo, Lothar: due to holidays a part >> of the subgroup did coordinate, Lothar will update his criteria >> list/problem statement with feedback, Paolo to follow-up with ministry >> for clarification of details >> * had various meetings with ministries (Paolo) >> * need to check possible limitations around the kind of entity, >> follow-up meeting next week >> * no serious objections - From Board or community (Paolo) >> * quite some silence after initial discussion, not much is >> happening - From the Board or community (Paolo) >> * waiting for input, vacation times, previous proposal was not >> liked (Thorsten) >> > it's not a really appropriate behavior of a German charity to create a > business entity in a country, which is known as a legal tax shelter. > > Regards, > Andreas > > > > -- Paolo Vecchi - Deputy Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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