[EU] Chapter creation as NGO

[Marc Vloemans]

Hi Till et al.,

I have set up two foundations in the past in The Netherlands.
In NL foundations do not pay tax as long as their bylaws state explicitly that it has no profit goals. However, it is allowed to create a financial buffer for continuity by putting 'profits' aside on the balance sheet. 

Costs for Chamber of Commerce and legal to set up; ca 650 Euro. Annual accountants statement for tax office; 500-700 euro.

If above is acceptable it can be set up within 4-6 weeks.   

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 11 jan. 2017 om 10:54 heeft Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Dear Maria, @all,
> 
> many thanks for putting this forward, I really look forward to get a
> solid OSGeo-EU established in 2017 ;-). Indeed this is an important
> question: I proposed the OSGeo board to keep at least some of the F4G
> 2016 surplus over here in Europe. But in order to be able to transfer
> money from the current FOSSGIS (OSGeo chapter
> Germany/Switzerland/Austria) bank account, we need a legal entity, that
> also is accepted as non-profit organisation.
> 
> There is a possibility to do this over here in Germany, but the process
> to found a registered society and then to be accepted as non-profit
> organisation takes some time (to be honest, too long :-( ).
> 
> Dirk talked about a possibility to have this in Belgium, @Dirk perhaps
> you can report your ideas?
> 
> Till
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 11.01.2017 um 10:43 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
>>> 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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