On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Andreas Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running some throw-away non-profit organisations, and have not > experienced problems. Have the tax authorities been made aware of this in advance? For how long are those organisations running? > Debconf has a different tax situation than a normal TO setup > (especially given the amount of money might bring us into VAT if we > like it or not), so keeping those apart has some advantages to reduce > long-term overhead. I fail to see how, please expand. > Also, having that seperated, reduces the risks > from debconf on "normal" debian assets. For this reason, I would > recommend to have a throw-away legal entity for debconf, and > independendly form a debian-owned legal umbrella in Germany. As this organisation will not hold non-DebConf Debian money or other assets at first anyway, I do not see any risk. And even if it does, I am still not sure what the actual risks would be unless you assume we will run DebConf15 deep into red figures. > You can use that name independend of how the legal umbrella is named. > One of my legal umbrellas is named "Trägerverein HST", but runs the > brand "Horber Schienen-Tage". This naming has not caused any issues. > The relation between Debconf, the Debconf15 e.V. and Debian would be > similar - related but not the same letters. We are aware of that and would still use the name "Debian" in our correspondence. Yet, some of us (me included) think this sends a stronger message, increasing the potential for donations. Thanks for your input, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cad77+grp5kso6c-c2wtaqmrwg9hion5pt4+oxbnmerp1+gh...@mail.gmail.com
