Re: [gentoo-nfp] Gentoo Foundation Trustees nominations

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:56:41PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> I'm afraid in case of the trustee position the desire to fix stuff
> is not sufficient. If I understand correctly, trustee's work
> involves a lot of legal and financial issues. And here we have some
> legal and political limitations.
>
> 1. The US social security number. To my understanding it is
> required to deal with financial and accounting smoothly. I don't
> have one and without it the ways I can help will be very limited.
I'll clarify Bircoph's point here, as the present treasurer:
- The IRS requires the filer to have a SSN or a Individual Taxpayer
  Identification Number [ITIN]. The filer doesn't have to be a trustee,
  but it helps a lot; if the filer isn't a trustee, then a trustee must
  sign in addition to the filer (eg a CPA or lawyer can be the filer).
- The present US bank, Capital One, refuses to have me as an authorized
  signer or owner on the account, even if I were to have an ITIN (the
  non-resident equivilent of the US social security number [SSN]). They
  will allow only persons with a US resident status (e.g. US citizen, or
  otherwise able to legally reside in the US).

This has NOT stopped me from being the treasurer, but does stop me from
being listed with the bank, or filing the IRS paperwork on my own.

I do want to see if I can find an international bank that will improve
the banking problem, because if the present 3 nominees do take office,
that leaves only two US residents to handle the bank side.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer
E-Mail   : robbat2@g.o
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