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Using offshore countries for Thunderbird registration<br>
<b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>From: </b>R Kent James<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, 13/07/2015 21:05:07 21:05 GMT ST +0100
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cite="mid:55A419F3.8050701@caspia.com" type="cite">As discussed
previously, one of the options for moving forward with Thunderbird
fund raising would be to register a separate organization to
receive those funds. I've talked about that being a user coop, but
for purposes of this email that is not important, just that it be
a new, independent registration.
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Given the current issues with non-profit status in the US, one
possibility is to register an organization in one of several
countries that are designed to be low-cost centers for corporate
registrations. Many of these countries now support registration of
"Foundations" in their laws, and the usages that these Foundations
may be dedicated to are much more flexible than US law.
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Our usage of such a country would be actually quite legitimate,
namely we have an organization without any particular country as
the obvious center of operations, so we might as well pick the
country of registration with the lowest cost. But a common use of
these countries are for activities that are considered sketchy in
larger countries, like moving your assets to another country so
that your soon-to-be divorced spouse cannot access them in the
divorce settlement, or hiding the proceeds of your corrupt
government position.
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My question is this: does anyone have any particular experiences
with organizations based in these countries, either positive,
negative, or neutral? I would be interested in 1) just your
initial reaction when you hear that an organization is registered
in a particular country, and 2) any specific experiences that you
have had in financial transactions with those countries.
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My view as a consumer (Software): <br>
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<li>great, they are doing something to lower their costs.</li>
<li>again as a consumer, the fulfillment agencies usually took
care of this</li>
<li>with particular products (especially things that would be
relevant to copyright, such as CloneDVD) it added a righteous
feeling of having invested into something more future proof than
software written in a country that is a big proponent of
Software Patents and other consumer laws potentially infringing
freedoms</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua</a></li>
<li>of course the fulfillment would have to be based somewhere "in
between", Since there is no legal issue with the Thunderbird
code base that should not be a concern.<br>
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