On Friday 24 of April 2020 08:15:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > I assumed a plan using a fiscal host. If I understood correctly, for > > OpenSource projects, there are fiscal hosts available that have 5% > > fees and no fixed monthly fees. And above all, the fiscal host would > > take care of bookkeeping, taxes, and so on. We could choose whether we > > prefer the US (USD currency) or the EU (EUR currency): > > > > https://opencollective.com/pricing?tab=singleCollectiveWithoutAccount > > > > > # # # > > > > > > These kind of decisions are always a trade off, personally I’d go > > > with Open Collective to begin with, but if the [TDE-ORG] starts > > > getting decent funding I’d move on to something else. > > > > If we use the Open Collective fiscal host, we would not have to deal > > with starting our own organization for now. That's one of the reasons > > why Open Collective seems interesting to me. > > This is kind of service is the most expensive you can get, leaving aside > the legal implications. A professinal bookkeeper for a costs you ~ 300.- > / year for simple bookkeeping (again: Austria) - that is, if you feel > overhelmed with dooing simple bookkeeping yourself. If going for legal, > how should these companies handle local laws? To which laws ate they > bound? What's with VAT? > > civicrm.org --> US > backdropcms.org --> US > opencollective.com --> US > stripe.com --> UK > > Choos your poison. For Open Collective, it depends on the selected fiscal host. For example, here is a fiscal host based in Brussels: https://opencollective.com/europe Does anyone know of any other organizations such as Open Collective? There is an example Software Freedom Conservancy, but it does not give a choice of fiscal hosts - only the US. At the same time, it seems more limited in the possibilities of donation methods, I do not see transparent access to accounting records. See: https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/ Cheers -- Slávek
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