[governance] ICANN meets Silicon Valley

[JFC Morfin]

At 00:40 15/10/2009, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>On 10/12/2009 01:52 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>>FYI, ICANN will open new office in Palo Alto
>
>ICANN routinely does this for its presidents (by-the-way, for ICANN 
>the term "CEO" is inaccurate.)  When I was on the board I suggested 
>that ICANN do this the president of that era.
>
>There is a reason for this.
>
>Under US tax law the costs of commuting from home to/from office are 
>not tax deductable.
>
>But the costs of going from office to office are.
>
>Thus, by way of establishing an "office" near the home of the 
>president of ICANN the costs of travel between that "office" and 
>Marina del Rey become tax deductible.
>
>Its a way of shifting a piece of the compensation of the president 
>off of ICANN and onto the US taxpayer.

Karl,
May be a good reason why to transfer ICANN outside of such a tax country?
jfc

PS. It roughly means that Rod's commuting will cost ICANN more than $ 
2000 a day? i.e. roughly what my Intlnet operations cost me per year. 
Interesting, it confirms what I suspected: I am engaged in a weak to 
strong strategy :-)

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