[members-discuss] Proposal for New RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

Il 13/07/2012 21:40, Nigel Titley ha scritto:
> On 10/07/2012 11:06, Andrea Cocito wrote:
>> On Jul 9, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
>>> ..... The purpose of
>>> publishing this proposal now is to encourage RIPE NCC members to look at
>>> the proposed new model and to give their feedback.
>> Hello,
>>
>> My feedback is: the proposal raises the cost for small LIR, reduces it the for extra large ones, does not simplify anything and does not promote resource conservation.
>>
>> The "limited resource" to conserve nowadays is IPv4 address space: make the fee EUR 0.1 per allocated IPv4 address, that would be fair and simple.
>>
> Andrea, in the previous round of discussions we said why we can't use an
> "n euros per address model".
>
> To re-iterate the argument, if we are seen to be "selling" IP addresses
> by the Dutch tax authorities then we lose our special tax status. This
> will immediately cause a rise in the cost of running the RIPE as we will
> be liable for Dutch corporation tax. Up until now the membership hasn't
> wanted this.

Where is the problem with any special tax status?

If the incoming money serves to cover expenses, there should not be any 
profit on which to pay taxes, ot it should be very low.

So, let's charge per resource usage and let's change the tax model!

I still have problem to understand why very big companies, using the 
most of IPv4 addresses, should only pay a nominal fee!!!

Regards,

Tonino


> Nigel
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