Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Gunnar Wolf writes: > Richard Darst dijo [Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:23:56AM -0400]: >> FWIW, I haven't been too active but I have been paying attention. >> Local team has well done their due, listened to disadvantages >> presented, and at least I agree now that an association is a >> reasonabl

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/09/12 11:30, Philipp Hug wrote: > For non-swiss companies we expect to not need to charge VAT. This is really positive and what I'm sure everyone was hoping - but when you say `expect', does that mean it is still being investigated, or it is subject to some application for charitable statu

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-02 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Philipp, Why is that? Do you think that it's not eligible to be recognized as a > charitable non-profit? I'm just interpolating from German law, but for > non-profit missions you're not able to recover VAT and not obliged to > collect > VAT. Of course that would depend on the association being

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org) [120901 20:51]: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > The budget of dc13 is above the limit where you have to start paying VAT, > > whereas debian.ch's budget isn't and won't be in the near future. > > Why is that? Do you think that it

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Philipp Kern writes: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: >> The budget of dc13 is above the limit where you have to start paying VAT, >> whereas debian.ch's budget isn't and won't be in the near future. > > Why is that? Do you think that it's not eligible to be recogniz

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 01/09/12 20:41, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: >> The budget of dc13 is above the limit where you have to start paying VAT, >> whereas debian.ch's budget isn't and won't be in the near future. > > Why is that? Do you think that it's not eligib

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-09-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:21:09AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > The budget of dc13 is above the limit where you have to start paying VAT, > whereas debian.ch's budget isn't and won't be in the near future. Why is that? Do you think that it's not eligible to be recognized as a charitable non-profit?

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Richard Richard Darst writes: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:45:35AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> I disagree with this, as I've observed in the past. For one thing, it >> doesn't seem to me that it is *that* easy to create this association. >> One argument is that, if it were so, it'd

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:21:54PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 31 août 2012 13.28:06, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > > On the issue of (a) leftover money and (b) membership, this is where a > > limited company may be more appropriate, e.g DC13 GmbH or DC13 AG? > > No. Clearly not.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 31/08/12 13:56, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Freitag, 31. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> In Switzerland, DebConf's worst case scenario is that every foreign >> sponsor and every person paying the professional rate will be charged >> VAT (about 8%). Swiss companies who sponsor DebConf will ge

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 31/08/12 15:39, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > On 31.08.2012 14:46, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> For example, I've heard that anyone who wants to make a GmbH or AG has >> to pay a big security deposit for their employer taxes, and 10,000 CHF >> per year in admin fees - those would be strong reasons

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 31.08.2012 14:46, Daniel Pocock wrote: For example, I've heard that anyone who wants to make a GmbH or AG has to pay a big security deposit for their employer taxes, and 10,000 CHF per year in admin fees - those would be strong reasons not to make a company in Switzerland, but instead of an a

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 31/08/12 14:21, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 31 août 2012 13.28:06, Daniel Pocock a écrit : >> On the issue of (a) leftover money and (b) membership, this is where a >> limited company may be more appropriate, e.g DC13 GmbH or DC13 AG? > > No. Clearly not. In Switzerland, an ass

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 31 août 2012 13.28:06, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > On the issue of (a) leftover money and (b) membership, this is where a > limited company may be more appropriate, e.g DC13 GmbH or DC13 AG? No. Clearly not. In Switzerland, an association is the correct form of organisation to handle a

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 31. August 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: > In Switzerland, DebConf's worst case scenario is that every foreign > sponsor and every person paying the professional rate will be charged > VAT (about 8%). Swiss companies who sponsor DebConf will get a rebate > of the 8% VAT on their tax retur

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 31/08/12 11:21, Philipp Hug wrote: >>> not be much more bureaucratic burden than "provide conclusive accounting >> for >>> DebConf13" and "agree where the remaining money (or depts) shall go" >> that we >>> will have to do anyway. >> > > The accounting has to be separate anyway and the good t

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Stefano, > Most != all. Some *some* overhead does exist. > > For me, as the treasurer of debian.ch, the main reason to have a separate organisation is a tax and accounting issue. The budget of dc13 is above the limit where you have to start paying VAT, whereas debian.ch's budget isn't and won

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:47:38AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I disagree with this, as I've observed in the past. For one thing, it > > doesn't seem to me that it is *that* easy to create this association. > > One argument is that, if it were so, it'd have already existed by now, > > no

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf13-localteam] DebConf 13 legal association

2012-08-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Stefano, first, thanks for your rapid feedback on this subject. Le vendredi, 31 août 2012 08.45:35, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > *** Possible solutions for DebConf 13 *** > > > > The easiest option to form a legal body for DebConf 13 is to form an > > association (Verein) under Swiss civ