[Foundation-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Greenspan illustration project

Sat Nov 3 18:08:18 UTC 2007

Anthony wrote:
> On 11/3/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> To what extent does the WMF have to even worry about the rules of
>>> different jurisdictions?
>>>       
>> Hiring someone in another country means you are doing business in that
>> country, and that business falls under that countries jurisdiction.
>>     
> {{citation_needed}}, although I also find the implication that the
> payments the WMF is contemplating constitutes "hiring someone" to be
> questionable.  Depends I suppose on the details of the relationship,
> which haven't yet been cast in stone.
My experience has been that among people who are clueless about tax law 
there are more who try to comply with non-existent law than try to evade 
laws that do exist. :-)

Ec