Since we are going to incorporate as a non-profit the benefits of incorporating in Delaware aren't as great as they would be if we were a for profit business. Our intention is to apply for tax exempt status both federally and in the state or district that we do incorporate in.
Thanks, Kate On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Peter Batty <peter.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I've mentioned before, every lawyer I have ever talked to about this has > told me to incorporate in Delaware. My current company Spatial Networking is > based in Colorado but incorporated in Delaware through a "registered agent" > - you can find lots of these via Google. > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Andrew Ayre <a...@britishideas.com>wrote: > >> I believe that California will charge $800 per year income tax for >> for-profit corporations even if you make a loss or no profit... >> >> A large number of Corporations in the US are incorporated in Delaware >> because my understanding is that they are very friendly towards >> businesses and easy to deal with. >> >> Andy >> >> Serge Wroclawski wrote: >> > There are two major "candidates" for incorporation at the moment. The >> > first is California, with the possible help of an attorney that works >> > with OSM International. Unfortunately this has been difficult as the >> > attorney is quite busy at the moment, and so asking him to do more >> > pro-bono work may be difficult going forward. >> >> > As discussed, we can incorporate as a corporate entity, get our EIN, >> > and then work on the non-profit part- part of which will be the >> > mission statement and other documents we're working on at the same >> > time. >> >> -- >> Andy >> PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > > -- > Peter Batty - President, Spatial Networking > W: +1 303 339 0957 M: +1 720 346 3954 > Blog: http://geothought.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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