[EU] Chapter creation as NGO

[Jáchym Čepický]

Hi,

please count me in

Thanks

Jachym

Dne 11.1.2017 v 10:59 Till Adams napsal(a):
> 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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