[governance] ICANN meets Silicon Valley

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Karl and all,

  Thanks you Karl for rightly pointing this out so
nicely and plainly for all of us.  It is unfortunate
that ICANN seems to seek ways by which the taxpayer
and/or stakeholder's costs can be increased rather than
seeking ways and means by which to reduce same.  Such
fiscal irresponisbility is plainly not in the best interests
of stakeholders, US Taxpayers or users and will eventually
likely be passed on to domain name holders in the near future.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
>Sent: Oct 14, 2009 5:40 PM
>To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>Subject: Re: [governance] ICANN meets Silicon Valley
>
>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--
>
>
>
>
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Regards,



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