[Qgis-psc] Discussion our financial situation

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi

On 11/14/19 1:49 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes - we need a relatively quick decision. Grant proposal usually take 
> longer to process.
>
> My suggestion: let's discuss this at next week's PSC meeting. Now that 
> we have 2-3 good proposals, we have a good ground for discussions.
>
> I am sorry that I come late with this - but earlier, the situation was 
> way too unclear and impossible to project our funds until the year's 
> end. It is still a bit vague. Maybe at the end it will be 12 or 18k 
> that we have available.
>
> As to taxes:
>
> We can make up to 10k CHF profit per year (approx. 9.2k €) without 
> having to pay taxes on that income, but if we go beyond it, a 
> significant amount of the income will be taxes. There might be a way 
> to accumulate such excess income as allowings (Rückstellungen) for 
> expected extra expenses - but when I read the tax documents, this is 
> mainly about "things", like buying a car, IT hardware, investing into 
> buildings, repairs or replacements of things we need, etc. Our 
> "digital nature" of our association doesn't fit that schema very well ;-)
>
> The tax is 8% on the revenues (if we go beyond 10k revenues). So if 
> our revenue is 12k CHF, we'd pay 960 CHF taxes (I'd like to avoid 
> that). The tax on financial assets (our amount on the account on Dec 
> 31) is 0.75 per mille - so negligible.
>
> I will have to investigate if the loss from last year that we had, can 
> be taken into account for this year, thus decreasing our revenues, but 
> it isn't yet clear to me.
>
> Now that I read the documents from the tax office again - the tax 
> declaration for this year will be different anyway. I just read that 
> membership payments (our sustaining memberships) are not regarded as 
> part of the revenues (that accounts for more than 50% of our income). 
> I just learned that minutes ago. Actually, that's quite good for us, 
> but it will make accounting a bit more complicated.
>
> I'll try to summarize the situation until PSC meeting next week.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
Thanks for the in-depth report, and continued work on the finances Andreas.

It is much appreciated!

Matthias