On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
US states have their own laws, their own income and sales taxes, and they each handle incorporation separately. In fact, a corporation which does business in more than one state has to keep separate accounting for each state and file as a foreign corporation in each state apart from the first. There are, as Sebastian questioned, significant legal, if not tax, advantages to having a separate organization in each state.
Hm. It is a wrong way for arguing for state-level chapters in USA. Free State Bavaria is, for example, much more independent entity than any of US states. And there are a number of similar examples in Europe.