"Bastien Nocera" <
hadess hadess net> wrote:
>Em Mon, 2012-03-12 às 12:16 +0100, Dave Neary escreveu:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/11/2012 04:30 PM, Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote:
>> > 2012/3/10 Germán Póo-Caamaño<
gpoo gnome org>:
>> >>>
>> >>> Does this make sense?
>> >>
>> >> It might need necessary to figure out the way to do it properly (I
>think
>> >> that is what Baptiste is trying to figure out). Otherwise, for
>the tax
>> >> office this sort of operation can look as money laundry or tax
>evasion.
>> >>
>> > …and I don't want to go to jail. :)
>>
>> That might be a bit dramatic...
>>
>> Yes, we can receive money from people in Europe, and we can transfer
>> that money to the US organisation with an invoice. And yes, we do
>need
>> to be careful about falling foul of money laundering laws.
>>
>> > We already had several issue due to the location of the Foundation
>in
>> > the past, like the tee-shirt design contest back on November 2010
>[1]
>> > which excluded inhabitants of some countries due to the embargo
>> > decided by the U.S.A. It's perhaps the right time to think to have
>a
>> > legal representation in Europe (and perhaps on other continents).
>>
>> It is true that it has not always been easy to deal with the GNOME
>> Foundation, because the foundation understandably worries about its
>> 501(c)3 status and making funds available without a sufficient paper
>> trail on how it will be spent (certainly the Libre Graphics Meeting
>guys
>> will testify to that) - but the same should go for any subsidiaries
>> working with the foundation. It's certainly much easier if money
>donated
>> in the EU is spent on EU activities that are easily justifiable.
>
>In that case, the problem becomes that we have two separate entities,
>with two separate organisational structures, with separate budgets.
>Which is why I wanted the existing US organisation to somehow have a
>Euro account. The accounting and budgeting is complicated enough
>as-is...
>
>> I disagree that a US organisation conforming to US export regulations
>is
>> a huge problem, though - IMHO this is a completely separate issue to
>the
>> money issue we're talking about here.
>
>Cheers
