[members-discuss] [Ticket#2012071301002615] Proposal for New RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Model
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Brian Nisbet
brian.nisbet at heanet.ie
Mon Jul 16 17:37:36 CEST 2012
"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 -- Brian Nisbet, Network Operations Manager HEAnet Limited, Ireland's Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1 Registered in Ireland, no 275301 tel: +35316609040 fax: +35316603666 web: http://www.heanet.ie/
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