Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need clarification on the status of Wikipedia India Programme Trust

Sunil, You are right. All the internal processes for dissolution have been completed. A few formalities remain to be completed before the sub-registrar and I hope that will be done in the next couple of months. I understand, and our tax consultants have confirmed this, the trust has had no activity (financial or otherwise) or income since inception and consequently no audit was conducted or required. Regards, Rahul — *Rahul Matthan* Partner Trilegal Trilegal The Residency, 7th Floor, 133/1 Residency Road Bangalore 560025. Tel +91-80-4343-4646 Dir +91-80-4343-4600 Fax +91-80-4343-4699 *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE* The contents of this message may be legally privileged and confidential, for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. It should not be read, copied and used by anyone other than the intended recipient. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us at the above co-ordinates, preserve its confidentiality and delete it from your system. Thank you. On 12-May-2014, at 8:37 pm, Sunil Abraham <sunil(a)cis-india.org> wrote: Dear Ravi, Rahul Matthan of Trilegal will be able to answer you question regarding the dissolution of the trust. He was the second trustee and has all the paper work related to the trust. From what I know - we never opened any bank accounts or make any financial transactions in terms of receiving income or making payments. Nor did the trust hire anyone or conduct any activities. From what I understand you cannot audit finances if there has been no financial transactions. In other words, after the trust was registered - we did not do anything further with the trust. But Rahul can confirm this. Best wishes, Sunil On Monday 12 May 2014 07:32 PM, Ravishankar wrote: Sunil, As one of the trustees of the Wikipedia India Programme Trust http://cis-india.org/news/announcement-of-wikimedia-india-program-trust could you please let the Wikimedia India community know: * What is the current status of the trust ? It was declared in July 2012 that the trust will be dissolved http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/India_Program_Announcement_and… * Where can we find independently audited financial statements of the trust as promised in the CIS blog post? I am copying this mail to Wikimedia India mailing list, Grants team staff from WMF. Thanks, Ravi