[members-discuss] [Ticket#2012071301002615] Proposal for New RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model

"Nigel Titley" wrote the following on 16/07/2012 11:02:
> On 14/07/2012 09:22, LeaderTelecom Ltd. wrote:
>> Dear Nigel,
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Yes, but if profit will be near 0, then Dutch corporation tax will
>> be 20% * 0 euro = 0 euro.
>>
>> Lets see RIPE Budget for 2011 year. Profit 1 023 kEUR. Corporate tax:
>> 25% (while profit >200kEUR). It is 256 kEUR. Total income: 18 550
>> kEUR. So real corporate tax is only 1,38% from our Income.
>>
>> The main Value which get any LIR from RIPE are IP adresses. So price
>> must be depend from count of IPs. Most of members pay too high price
>> in case when RIPE has non profit status. May be make sense to develop
>> second budget and charging scheme in case when RIPE will be switch
>> status from non profit to profit Organisation?
>
> Perfectly happy to do this, but members have in the past indicated that
> they want to retain not-for-profit and the special tax status.

Certainly this member does. We can discuss, at length, how we all think 
the Dutch government *might* interpret things, but I'm in favour of 
certainty (or as much certainty as possible) when it comes to very large 
sums of money.

Brian

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