<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Kate,<div>Thanks! But what is the meaning of "extending the tax exempt status" of e.g. the Eclipse Foundation? From your comment below this "umbrella capability" becomes an empty shell if OSGeo in the end still requires the tax payment on income.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jeroen</div><div><br><div><div>On 12 jul. 2013, at 15:56, Kate Chapman <<a href="mailto:kate@maploser.com">kate@maploser.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Hi Jeroen,</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Once a payment is made to OSGEO it would be income for the organization. If perhaps OSGEO were to not get approved for tax exempt status in the US they would then owe tax on it as income.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Kate</p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>