On 05/11/2016 06:04 PM, Johann v. Preu?en wrote: > i am sorry if i have wasted your time on non-profit formation and > taxation issues when i put my CPA hat on. i originally meant to point > out some banking alternatives and how to make certain you could qualify > and control such with the non-profit formation as a means and California > as a low-cost conduit. Not a waste; despite working these issues for some time I remain ever hopeful that there is indeed a simple solution that has to date escaped us. Or even a complex one for that matter. I have also conflated other issues in what started out as an online payment thread :-) > > if you are already set up in DE, you can take advantage of the free > in-/out-ACH, web API's, and mass-pay at dwolla (tied to any existing > bank account(s) you have now or in the future) and > internationally-scoped banking through Citi or some such. i suggested > Ally Bank only because they offer free services: in-bound SWIFT, > in-/out-bound domestic US wire transfers, and checking. also, their $10 > fee for out-bound SWIFT is the lowest i know of for non-analysis (low > running-balance) checking acct's. Citibank and Ally are both U.S. banks, we already have multiple U.S. bank accounts. We don't do a lot of transactions (other than online donation payments) so the per-transaction fees are not a major consideration, nor are they onerous with our current U.S. bank. Dwolla I'll call when they open for business. I suspect we'll run into the U.S. web server location issue, but I'll check. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation 20-22 Wenlock Road London N1 7GU United Kingdom +44 1785508015 +1 301 874 2571 direct marquess at opensslfoundation.org stevem at openssl.org
