[EU] Chapter creation as NGO

[Till Adams]

as far as these members mustn't be Belgium citizens, you can count on me.


Am 11.01.2017 um 10:55 schrieb Dirk Frigne:
> Hi,
>
> I see Belgium is on the list ...
> I can help from Belgium, apparantly on the list ...
> I can even ask someone who has an address in Brussels and is also
> hosting OSGeo Belgium for this reason, if he agree's to host the EU
> local chapter.
>
> I know the rules in Belgium a bit, and the law is becoming more severe
> for organisations mis-using this non-for-profit structure to hide some
> business activities and misusing money. But in case of OSGeo, I don't
> see any problem, as this is a real non-for-profit organisation.
>
> I think that in this case it can be interesting to have a legal entity
> (non-for-profit).
>
> I can re-use the by-laws from OSGeo.Be (which are a french translation
> from the OSGeo.org by laws, and adapted for Belgium law.
>
> Can we make a list on the wiki who want's to be a in the official
> document to create a legal structure? I will need the full identity
> data, but will ask for that in a seperate mail.
>
> I think we need as a minimum 3 founding members.
>
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
>
> On 11-01-17 10:43, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems to me that many European or even global societies organize
>>> themselves in European tax havens, which include Switzerland, Luxemburg,
>>> Belgium, Austria, etc (this is a partial list from wikipedia).
>>>
>>> In Finland we have the local committee as a legal society, which is tax free
>>> as long as we don't do anything that looks like business to the tax
>>> collector. Collecting money for activities and even paying salaries is
>>> usually ok. We don't have to report to the tax collector unless we do
>>> business - but what is business is again somewhat fuzzy.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ari
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Ari,
>>
>> Good to know! Why do we want tax heavens if it is not for good things
>> like this? :)
>>
>> So, is someone on some friendlier country wanting to step forward for
>> this? I can help from here, but I guess we need at least someone
>> officially living on the country we want to set up the association.
>>
>> María.
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