David Megginson said:
So, in the end, my advice is not to do it. If you want to make a living or
partial living from FlightGear, set up a separate commercial site and be
prepared to learn about CRM, tax laws, incorporation laws, legal fees,
insurance, NDA's, contracts, and all the other
Jim Wilson wrote:
You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of
money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return.
I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very
surprised if the IRS allowed Curt to count advertising revenue as a
David Megginson said:
Jim Wilson wrote:
You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of
money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return.
I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very
surprised if the IRS allowed Curt
Jim Wilson wrote:
Maybe I've missed something in this thread, I am not talking about a
consulting business with customers, time billing, etc.
The thread started with Curt posting asking for opinions about running
banner ads on flightgear.org to raise revenue. He also indicated that he'd
be
David Megginson said:
check with people who know. I don't know U.S. professional fees that well,
but I'd guess that a full audit would leave a person at least USD 5K-10K
poorer just in accounting and/or legal fees, even if the auditors do not end
up finding anything wrong.
Well...not
On Friday 16 July 2004 23:45, David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
But any way you cut it, putting advertisements on our web site will
change the look and feel of our web site and probably influence the
impression our project projects to the world ...
Yes, it will make a
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:53:51 +0100, Lee wrote in message
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On Friday 16 July 2004 23:45, David Megginson wrote:
...wisdom omitted...
These are good points. Glad it's not my call.
..amen.
..they want banner ads, they ship us free hardware and pay us
to write GPL drivers
