RE: [atlarge-discuss] RE : [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees & corporate status

["Abel Wisman" <abel@able-towers.com>]

What is also worth to consider is the legal liability that panel members
are exposed to in the USA as opposed to the EU (f.i.) being sued in the
NL or UK or FR or Germany is a lot easier to defend and less "costly"

Abel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Holt [mailto:jefftttt@txucom.net] 
> Sent: 08 June 2003 02:11
> To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> Subject: [atlarge-discuss] RE : [atlarge-discuss] Membership 
> fees & corporate status
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> @Large,
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> Should this organization decide to do so, incorporating in 
> the USA under Internal Revenue Code § 501©(3) as a 
> not-for-profit, educational organization would give a 
> preferred status and make donations (in the US at least) tax 
> deductible.  How this might effect taxing in other nations 
> might be worth investigating, but with a substantial number 
> of members capable of financially contributing in the US, it 
> is something to consider.
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> Sincerely,
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> TTTT
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> Jefftttt@txucom.net
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> www.tejas-info-services.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dassa [mailto:dassa@dhs.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 6:21 PM
> To: 'Atlarge Discuss List'
> Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] RE : [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees
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> |> -----Original Message-----
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> |> From: Richard Henderson [mailto:richardhenderson@ntlworld.com]
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> |> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 4:07 AM
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> |> To: 'Atlarge Discuss List'
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> |> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] RE : [atlarge-discuss] 
> Membership fees
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> <SNIP>
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> |> ----- Original Message -----
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> |> From: Daniel CHIRITA <daniel@chirita.org>
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> |>
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> |> >Can you explain please ? Do you want membership levels,
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> |> with different
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> |> >advantages according to their financial contribution ? If
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> |> it is that, I
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> |> >do not agree, we must keep our open statute. We can accept
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> |> gifts but
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> |> >that should give place to no advantage in return !
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> |> >
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> |> >Daniel CHIRITA
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> |> What I can't get my head round is that people all over the
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> |> world - ordinary internet users - should be expected to pay
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> |> for the right to participate in our campaigns for democratic
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> |> governance of the net by ordinary users. Nor can I see why
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> |> people should have to *pay* for the right to vote for the
> 
> |> advancement of this cause.
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> <SNIP>
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> Nothing in this world is free as the saying goes.  There are 
> costs to be
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> covered and the need for funding is there.  I disagree with relying on
> 
> donations and good will as past experience has shown a small 
> number end
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> up covering the costs for the majority and the majority takes 
> advantage
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> when possible and doesn't contribute anything constructive outside of
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> their own narrow focus.
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> I believe a non-financial group is a must for the organisation but I
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> disagree with giving them exactly the same rights as those who
> 
> financially support it.  For instance, I would limit office 
> bearers and
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> voting on organisational structure only to financial members but would
> 
> have open voting on the issues the organisation would involve itself.
> 
> This would meet our need to allow all to participate but provide some
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> protection for the organisational structure.  In the interest of not
> 
> creating a power groups, I'd leave the membership at the two 
> classes and
> 
> try to keep it simple.  Sponsors are a different matter to membership.
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> Darryl (Dassa) Lynch
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