Re: European bank account for donations

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

El dt 13 de 03 de 2012 a les 17:26 +0100, en/na Chema Casanova va
escriure:
> El lun, 12-03-2012 a las 17:02 +0100, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 14:36 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > Are any of GNOME's 3 sister organizations that have bank accounts in
> > > Europe a tax free charity currently?  If not, then are we in a position
> > > to meet requirements and set one up?
> 
> > GNOME Hispano is, and AFAIR has been used to get money for some of the
> > GUADEC's organized in Spain. Chema Casanova should have more details of
> > all this
> 
> What we have done in the past was quite simple. As events organizers we
> just invoiced to sponsors and we paid the invoices from providers that
> were issued in the name of GNOME Hispano. 
> 
> So in legal terms, we were responsible with providers and clients. As
> everything was fine there was no real problem. The only issue could
> arise when you transfer money between the two organizations, but in this
> case it could be justified as a sponsoring invoice or a donation
> depending of the motivation of the transfer. It isn't different to any
> transaction from Europe to US between two different companies.
> 
> At this moment, GNOME Hispano is a non profit organization, the only
> different with a company is that profits should be invested in the
> association objectives and that we could receive donations. In our case
> donations don't imply taxable deduction, because we haven't been
> declared as public interest in Spain. In a common year our budget isn't
> more than 2500€, and half of it is spend in bank commissions and the
> taxes consultancy.
> 
> In any case a frame agreement of collaboration should define the
> controls and procedures that could define how a entity should deal with
> the funds.
> 
> There are possibilities, but implications should be studied, this year
> GNOME Hispano will deal with the budget topic in GUADEC invoicing and
> paying invoices with our Bank Account. 
> 
> The other option is opening a delegation of the GNOME Foundation in
> Europe, but at the end is almost the same as creating a new association
> with a relation with the GNOME Foundation. Maybe this option could be
> evaluated.

Hi all,

Seem we have a perfect topic to discuss on GUADEC :)

We could invite some lawyers/tax-makers/other-European-organizations to
give us advice.

Cheers,

> Regards,
> 
> Chema Casanova
> 
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