[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Pharos]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Besides, that's what
>  the chapter creation guide suggests. There's no reason not to create a
>  corporate entity that I can see.

The primary (if not only) reason we have separate copororate entities
internationally is because a US-based foundation can only create
affiliates within the US.

I can only see a huge waste of resources in creating 5 or 10 new
corporate entities in the US, when the one we have now works just
fine.

Thanks,
Pharos

> On May 3, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Pharos wrote:
>
>  > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>
>  > wrote:
>  >> Given that the WMF is aware of the issues facing incorporation in
>  >> different states and the difficulties set up as such, combined with
>  >> the fact that we already have 3 in development chapters from 3 major
>  >> metropolitan regions, I'm personally willing to bet that a "one
>  >> nation
>  >> one chapter" rule would at the very least have to have an exception
>  >> for the US and other large countries with dispersed metropolitan
>  >> centers. Due to the highly sovereign nature of the several states,
>  >> compared with their massive size difference compared to Europe, I
>  >> don't see any other choice.
>  >
>  > Dan, I don't see why we shouldn't organize as autonomous "affiliates".
>  > This will give us the full tax advantages of a non-profit (because of
>  > our connection to WMF), without even having to become incorporated.
>  >
>  > If we have to vote for chapter seats on the Board or anything else, we
>  > can just pool our votes.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Pharos
>  >
>  >> On May 3, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Anthony wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>  >>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>>> Hoi,
>  >>>> Countries in Europe have states too.
>  >>>> Thanks,
>  >>>>     GerardM
>  >>>>
>  >>> I don't deny that, though I do wonder if we're using the same
>  >>> sense of
>  >>> the term "state".  I don't mean to include mere administrative
>  >>> divisions.
>  >>>
>  >>> 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.
>  >>>
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