24 Apr
2020
24 Apr
'20
9:07 a.m.
On Friday 24 of April 2020 08:15:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
For Open Collective, it depends on the selected fiscal host. For example,
here is a fiscal host based in Brussels:
https://opencollective.com/europe
Does anyone know of any other organizations such as Open Collective? There
is an example Software Freedom Conservancy, but it does not give a choice
of fiscal hosts - only the US. At the same time, it seems more limited in
the possibilities of donation methods, I do not see transparent access to
accounting records. See:
https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/
Cheers
--
Slávek
I assumed a
plan using a fiscal host. If I understood correctly, for
OpenSource projects, there are fiscal hosts available that have 5%
fees and no fixed monthly fees. And above all, the fiscal host would
take care of bookkeeping, taxes, and so on. We could choose whether we
prefer the US (USD currency) or the EU (EUR currency):
https://opencollective.com/pricing?tab=singleCollectiveWithoutAccount
This is kind of service is the most expensive you can get, leaving aside
the legal implications. A professinal bookkeeper for a costs you ~ 300.-
/ year for simple bookkeeping (again: Austria) - that is, if you feel
overhelmed with dooing simple bookkeeping yourself. If going for legal,
how should these companies handle local laws? To which laws ate they
bound? What's with VAT?
civicrm.org --> US
backdropcms.org --> US
opencollective.com --> US
stripe.com --> UK
Choos your poison. # # #
These kind of decisions are always a trade off, personally I’d go
with Open Collective to begin with, but if the [TDE-ORG] starts
getting decent funding I’d move on to something else.
If we use the Open Collective fiscal host, we would not have to deal
with starting our own organization for now. That's one of the reasons
why Open Collective seems interesting to me.