Basically - we cannot *possibly* be the first project to have this problem.
Therefore, there should be examples (successful and unsuccessful) we can look to. On 12 November 2014 13:55, Tres Finocchiaro <tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > What country, should be the first thing to determine. Here i think the >> > question would be: /In what country does the pledger live/ > > > I think what you mean is, what country does the recipient live. The pledgers > have nothing to do with this. > > >> > I think it's really important that LMMS doesn't get into any gray areas >> > or shady business, including trying to "game the system" to avoid taxes and >> > the like (people aren't very happy about Google and others doing that sort >> > of stuff) > > > What you are describing is two separate things. Legal tax evasion is legal, > just bad PR. In order to fall into a category where tax evasion is cost > effective, a company must make magnitudes more than what we are talking > about and be able to afford a headquarters building stationed in a different > country with lower corporate taxes. > > We won't have corporate taxes. If we ever do form, it will probably be done > (at least at first) as a non-profit, so tax evasion isn't an issue. Legal > advice is a good thing to have, however this is common enough that there are > cookie-cutter services (such as LegalZoom) which can give a compliance > checklist without all of the attorney fees. > > So if we can set speculative conversation aside, this is all handled by a > good lead person on this, which is really what we need... someone to manage > it. > > We need someone to say "Ok, I'll do this". The rest will fall into place > naturally I believe. I constantly bring up the money problem because I want > to squash the idea that there's no such thing as too much money. Too much > money (and how we plan on spending it) is a huge risk if we were to just > start a campaign blindly without a plan. > > -Tres > > - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:39 AM, musikbear <mkru...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Stian Jørgensrud wrote >> > I want to say that I can take this on me, but I am pretty sure I won't >> > have time, or the knowledge. I can help a bit, of course, what about >> > teaming up? Anyone else want to join? >> >> If i can be of assistance, i will >> >> One thing 'Law' >> Thats really difficult on the net >> What country, should be the first thing to determine. >> Here i think the question would be: /In what country does the pledger >> live/ >> If it is that 'simple', it should be possible to get the tax-ILR, to aid >> in >> this aspect, but its dead important that the pledger issent hit with some >> awfull extra tax, or fine. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com/About-the-paid-developer-idea-tp10747p10791.html >> Sent from the lmms-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. >> Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. >> Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. >> Take corrective actions from your mobile device. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> LMMS-devel mailing list >> LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
