Sandrina

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  1. Hey Benm Het is voor een service - dus geen shiping costs involved. Thx :)
  2. Dear Highio, Please feel free to answer in Dutch I understand it fully (I just can't write it very well). Maar ik gaa het probeeren ;) Het gaat om een business client - met VAT nummer (een Spaanse dus dan). Bedankt alvast!
  3. Good afternoon, I am having a client in Spain for whom I prepare an invoice, he said I don't have to charge VAT on the money that I ask, is that right? Do I not have to include the BTW in the invoice sending to Spain? Example: NL: Cost 500E (excl.BTW) - including BTW 605E Spain: Cost 500E (excl. BTW) But I still probably have to pay it to the Belastingdienst in NL. So, I am losing money, no? All the Best, Sandrina
  4. I'm not questioning your intentions. But you depend on the VOF for your income and that income is partially supplied by a foundation that you control - see the problem? I absolutely do, that is why I landed on this page. But is this only a problem for us as possible sponsors and funds might think that this is a weird situation and hence deny as funds or could that be a real legal issue?
  5. Thank you for the fast answer Ron! I do hope you've done that already. Is there a VOF contract? Are there statutes for the foundation? They both call for professional advice, but since they are intertwined even more so! This could possibly be seen as a tax evasion scheme (both income tax and VAT) with all further consequences. Well the VOF is officially registered and so is the Stichting with statuten and everything but we did not describe within the statuten of the Stichting the role of the VOF (I think that would be even more weird). I meant more like a writing in which we explain our way of work and the reason behind the way we set ourselves up. I would like to be as transparent as possible. But for one, I do not want to leave the board of the Stichting and give the responsibility to others - and secondly, I want to continue to work with my VOF for not just the Stichting but also other third parties as this will be our main source of income. --- This can and should look weird. Try to make a strict distinction, not an organic one. This seems like a conflict of interest or a chain of tax evasion. I'm not implying anything about your intentions, but this is thin ice. Both the VOF and the foundation need professional help to sort this out and controle risks and liabilities. (This is no self promotion, this area is not my line of work). Who would you advice on being able to give such advice? Lawyer? Accountant? Notaris? KVK? Belastingdienst? I am looking for a while already, and my accountant said it is fine, a friend who knows its way around in law said it should be ok... but this are rather vague answers. That's why I want to put something down in writing with somebody who can really say 'Ok, if you do it like this, with these intentions - fine.' I don't try to avoid taxes (happily paying what is asked), or try to get around something. I simply want to be able to earn my living with my VOF doing what I love (keeping the options to scale what we do) while running a Stichting that is able to accumulate funds to empower even more impact on what I do (for others mainly!). --- Are your intentions solely non-commercial except for salaries? Then you could give up the VOF and put all the activities in the foundation. You would basically have to choose between being on the board or being a paid employee of the foundation. (It’s possible to do both but I would steer clear of that due to possible conflict of interest.) I really don't want that.. But what is the difference between a VOF and a Stichting and a 'VOF onder de Stichting'? I tried to find something online - but without success. Maybe I also do not know how to search for it correctly. --- And yes @TwaBla, this person is my life partner (even if not married)... Thank you very much again!
  6. Good evening, I hope it is alright if I write in Englisch (please feel free to answer in Dutch) I can read and speak it fluently - just my writing is still quite bad and I am afraid that I can't really express my question if I would write it in Dutch. So, please bare with me and my excuse for the 'moeite' :) This is the situation: 1) I have a VOF together with my partner where we are giving advice to NGOs, public institutions, universities, and other agencies on positive social change. That means that we advise on communication, marketing, we give workshops, trainings, develop creative concepts of how positive social change can be achieved including the people's needs and wants etc. Consultancy actually. 2) Next to that we have an NGO (Stichting) where we aim to initiate bottom-up initiatives ourselves (organise events, festivals et.c) and support them in becoming more successful and reach the goal they want to reach, here we also offer trainings, workshops but also financial support. They are similar as in they both aim to support positive social change. They are different in that the VOF aims to 'facilitate' social change and the Stichting aims to 'initiate' and support. My first question: I heard that if we get funding for the Stichting (for an event or festival) we are able to hire our own VOF for project management support or create concept development (as long as we also hire other people and as long as the Stichting is not the only income of the VOF). Is that right? Secondly: What is important for us is that our VOF stands as a social enterprise not just with the causes we support but also with the financial structure we have. That is why we would like to move 20% of every income we have towards our Stichting. 1st question - do you thnk we should make the structures of both 'rechtsformen' official in writing and have it signed by somebody to make sure it is legal what we do? this is where the next tricky situation comes in. Via our Stichting we pay a coworking space for 'space'. However, the same coworking space is also hiring our VOF for consultancy and other tasks. We then (according to our internal regulation) give 20% of the money given by the coworking space back to the Stichting which uses it to pay the coworking space again. Do you see how this could look weird to others? I do not want to get in any legal trouble here... We mean honest business and work for a good cause - so I don't want to screw that up by doing something that is not legal :/ The reason why we have both Stichting and VOF is that we want to commit 100% to social change. Yet, with a Stichting alone we won't be able to pay ourselves salary and hence can never commit ourselves 100% to the cause. Therefore, we only focus on 'initiation and support' with our Stichting. Apply for funding to run projects etc. With the VOF we then offer specific professional service that help 'facilitate' social change, also we develop products like 'online platforms', and 'toolkits'. Also (and this is tricky question Nr. 3) on our future online platform (that will serve as a crowdsourcing platform for citizen initiatives) which will be run by the VOF, the Stichting will play an important part. Where the VOF is facilitating and building the platform the Stichting will make sure that the projects that are created on the platform get the necessary funding (if they need any). So, our work is very much intertwined and I am not sure if the 'overheid' maybe sees trouble in that. Is there anybody who can maybe advice on this situation? Also I heard that there is the option to run a 'VOF onder Stichting' (right now they are two separated entities) - would it make sense to bring them together and if so, how do you do that and why would that be advisable? Sorry agian for writing all in Englisch and especially for making it such a long one! Thank you already for helping us :) Looking forward hearing from you. All the best, Sandrina
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