Okay, so the Articles of Incorporation needs to be filed with the Secretaty of State, need to see if Rob has worked on this at all yet. (I doubt it)
Then you need to apply to the IRS for 501c3 status. But something I noted in the Articles of Incorporation Troy sent me:
The purposes for which the corporation is organized are exclusively for social, scientific, and educational purposes,
The reason I note this is that scientific and educational purposes are allowed under a 501c3, but a social purpose, one must file under a 501c7. Basically, apparently that section needs to be re-written. That's about the only one, really.
The other thing I noted was that while three directors are required to be named, only one person is actually needed to sign and be the incorporator.
Then we need to submit papers to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts after we get exempt status from the IRS to get exempt from state sales tax.
There was still an issue on whether or not we wanted to use Paypal/Yahoo Stores/some other thing. Yahoo Stores I would basically rule out, the per transaction fee is typical (2.25% or so, plus $.30 per transaction fee), but then they want a minimum of $40 a month fee, at least. Paypal is about the same on the charges, but no monthly fee. The one thing I wondered about though was whether we wished to just establish a merchant account to allow online transactions, and then during the registration at the convention, allow Visa/Mastercard payments there. Just a thought to entertain.
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