Hopefully this is an egregious mistake by the authorities and gets overturned quickly. In the meanwhile, it must be difficult to do any financial planning without knowing what the tax liabilities will be.
@nemobis The USA entity has been in the works for a long time, it is a coincidence that this is happening all at once.
We do not plan to move operations to the US entity, it is purely for fundraising / advocating in the US.
If we do not get back the gGmbH status, then the plan for now is to continue operate in Germany (we are working on improving governance there). The non-profit status did not bring many benefits that we cant replicate otherwise (as we dont accept tax-exempt donations).
@renchap Thanks. Yes, I know the 501(c)(3) plans were mentioned already in the 2022 annual report. Let's hope you're right about the gGmbH status but people have different expectations. I don't think a GmbH would be good enough. The main issue is profit redistribution.
There's a giant header "Social networking that's not for sale" on https://joinmastodon.org/ . You can't honestly continue saying that if you're a GmbH. (I've never checked whether it's true for a gGmbH; I just trusted it was.)
@nemobis We are working on having a better governance, and working with lawyers to see what options we have. Mastodon is still not for sale, and we really hope we will get back the non-profit status as this makes everything easier for us. The gGmbH status is really a nice thing :)
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