Anno domini 2020 Fri, 24 Apr 11:07:30 +0200 Slávek Banko scripsit: > 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 The question still is: what problem can you sove with a paied service like that? You still need a legal framework to use it. And when you have the framework, what's the point in those services? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
